Dramatic Fight Against Rubber Fire
LONDON, October 28.—Although struck by falling masonry an Australian merchant seaman Peter Jackson, escaped unhurt…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
359 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 18
Boy Set Fire to Cat
NEW YORK, Oct 29.—A 12-year-old boy was accused at Johnson, Pennsylvania, yesterday of starting a forest fire by…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners has advised Lower Hunter Shire Council that action would be taken to group Miller’s Forest with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parts of Town a fire Hazard, Claims Fireman Startling Disclosure at Chamber of Commerce Meeting
Mr. Clive Bourke, a member of Singleton Fire Brigade, and also a member of Singleton and District Chamber of Commerce, said last night at the monthly meeting of the Chamber that parts of Singleton were a fire hazard…
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Aberdeen Bush Fire Fighting Brigade is busy overhauling all its gear in readiness for any emergency that may arise during…
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Police at Scranton (Pennsylvania) arrested Harry Anderson, 29, on a charge of having started five forest fires in Pike County…
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SINGLETON: The water to fight fires in the back premises of buildings from William to York Streets is “up to putty,” said Mr. Clive…
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Mr. W. Dalton, Secretary of the Parkville (N.S.W.) Bush Fire Brigade reports that the Brigade's new storage shed has been…
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ABERDEEN : Aberdeen Bush Fire Brigade is busy overhauling its gear in readiness for any emergency that may arise during…
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At the inquiry into the cause of the fire, Ray Ernest Paget, pastrycook, of Kent Street, said he was at his place of employment at Paget's bakery, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Prevention Week
Bush Fires Prevention Week will open on the 17th inst. The object of Fire Prevention Week is to arouse a greater "fire consciousness" in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burke Fire Probably Caused by' Cigarette Butt, Says Coroner Inquest Into Death of Baby; Inquiry Into Cause of Fire Both Happenings Found to Be Accidental
The fire of the early morning of October 24, which gutted the hairdressing and tobacconist saloon and the residential premises of Francis Ray Burke and his wife, and which resulted in the death of Dianne Veronica Burke, aged seven months, was…
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QUIRINDI: AU except two bush brigades within Tama rang Shire were represented at a Joint meeting to discuss the question of fire…
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On Sunday morning the fire alarm rang and the brigade went to Oomabah private Hospital, at the rear of which the door of the shed had caught…
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The annual Bush Fires Prevention Camp[?] and Fire Prevention Week organised by the Bush Fires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Simsville Sawmill Destroyed by Fire. House and Contents Also Lost
At midday on Sunday, fire broke out at the sawmill of Allen Taylor and Co., Simsville, near Stroud. Despite the efforts of between 100 and 150…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigades Inspector Alarmed Over Singleton's Water Position Belief That Council Will Be Honest in Endeavours to Rectify Anomalies
Inspector L. G. Fisher, of the New South Wales Fire Brigades, who visited Singleton yesterday in the course of official duties, one of which was to investigate the water position, following recent disclosures, expressed alarm over the water position in…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—A Dutch ship the Alpherat is on fire in the South China Sea about 150 miles south-east of Hongkong. but…
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The Simsville sawmill owned by Allen Taylor and Co. was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday last. So sudden and unexpected before the…
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