Fire Hazards on Warships
WASHINGTON: Officers, men and industrialists who worked at the unheroic job of making paint and flame controls accomplished…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
312 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 16
Sirens to Be Sounded Fire Brigade And Ambulance
The sound of sirens on fire-brigade end ambulance vehicles is again to become familiar to the public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Circus Tent Officials Sent To Gaol
NEW YORK, February 22.— Three officials of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Balley’s circus were to-day sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hall Damaged by Fire
SYDNEY Saturday.—Considerable damage was done to St. Joachim’s parish hall, Lidcombe. when a fire broke out in the rear…
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Mr. Ern. Turner was bringing up Mr. Merv. Saxby's new furniture on his lorry when the gas producer set fire to the loading on the southern…
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The overheating of the near wheel brake on a Rover Motors bus in Church street shortly after midday to-day caused a quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Fighters in Tokio
NEW YORK March 5.—Tokio radio said that special students’ fire brigade had been formed and is operating three shifts, by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seeking Way Over Rhine Artillery Fire Battering Germans. Australian Associates Press
LONDON March 5.—Reporting last night that the British Second Army, poised along the northern sector of the western front, was probing for an opening which would enable it to [?] way across the Rhine—most probably…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Secret Fire Bomb May Shorten War Australian associated Press
NEW YORK, March 12 Major-General Lemay, chief of the 21st Bomber Command, believes that the war may have been shortened by the use of the new M69 incendiary bomb, specially designed for use against Japan, in the big…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade
The Chamber of Commerce asked the Council to take the steps needed to bring into existence a fire brigade in Raymond Terrace…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →May Give “Cease Fire” by Radio
NEW YORE March 16.—Frontline troops would probably know of the cessation of hostilities in Europe within nine minutes,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nagoya on Fire for Second Time Mass Raid by Superfortresses
Nagoya, the third city of Japan, has been left on fire for the second time in a week as the result of a mass raid by Superfortresses. It is unofficially stated that at least 300 heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baltic Naval Base Falls to Russians Zhukov’s Forces Can Now See Glow From Fires in Berlin Australian Associated Press
LONDON, March 19—Red Army troops under Marshal Zhukov have occupied Kolberg, a German Baltic port and naval base 54 miles east of the mouth of the Oder, and 130 miles west of Danzig…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Fires Sweep Japan's Industrial Areas. New Philippines Landing
GUAM, Monday.—it is officially announced by Admiral Nimitz that American carrier planes on Monday attacked Kobe, Kure and other objectives in and around the island and sea. Tokio Radio says waves of American Naval planes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombers Again Over Japan Kobe, Osaka, and Kure Under Fire
Mass American carrier assaults against Southern Japan entered on their third successive day when, according to Tokio radio, wave after wave of naval planes attacked the big Japanese cities of Kobe, Kure, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protection From Fires Need of Thornton District
When the members of the Board of Fine Commissioners visited East Maitland yesterday afternoon, they were met by…
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LONDON March 23. — Fire guards throughout Britain will land down from to-morrow the Home Secretary Mr. Morrison,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fire
Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, Cessnock Fire Brigade received a call to a residence at the corner of Mayfield and Cooper Streets. An area of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£120,000 Blaze in Sydney
SYDNEY Sat—Damage estimated at, £120,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a sections of the big Botany wool works…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fire At East Maitland
A quantity of grass and rubbish and four panels of fencing were destroyed this morning at the corner of [?] and George streets…
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