Fire Fighting Equipment
The Board of Fire Commissioners has notified Lower Hunter" Shire Council that a hose and box had been installed at Scotch Creek-road,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
384 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 20
Aberdeen Town and Bush Fire Brigade
The Aberdeen Town and Bush Fire Brigade received a call on Monday last to a fire on Mr. J. Naughton's property. On arrival…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Damage to the extent of £6000 was done by a fire at the County Council electricity supply showrooms in Burwood-street,…
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WELLINGTON (NZ), Friday (AAP-Reuter).—A knowledge that there were people in the burning building seemed to…
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The Chief Secretary, Mr. Bad[?]eley, said that the fire danger in many parts of the State made it imperative that every citizen…
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SINGLETON, Monday.—Singleton Fire Brigade was called out to a grass fire in Albion Park, South Singleton, on Saturday,…
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The aged caretaker of Tamworth's only night club narrowly escaped death with his wife when the club was burned to…
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Spanish troops fired on a Moorish nationalists procession in Tetuan and killed and wounded a number of people…
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LONDON, February 9.—Spanish troops fired on a Boorish nationalist procession at Tetuan and killed and [?]ounded a number of people, says a Tangier message. The Moors had declared a general strike because the…
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Members of Singleton Volunteer Fire Brigade received a call to fire hi Albion Park on Saturday morning. The alarm…
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ABERDEEN.—Mr. J. Norton, of Blairmore Lane, Aberdeen, had the misfortune to have four of his haystacks badly damaged by…
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By advertisement in to-day's issue, Mr A. E. Craig, Patrick Plains Shire Council Clerk, advises that permission of the…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—The tug, Woonda, to-day reached the 7000 tons freighter, Willisten, which canght fire 80 miles from…
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The hotel which was played such an important role up to date in the making of the Ealing Studies film. "Eureka…
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LONDON, Feb. 14.—According to Reuter’s Trieste correspondent, a motor boat fired for ten minutes on a small coastal town,…
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Well known judge at shows and rodeos, Mr. Alf Jones, lost by fire his station homestead, Mungie Buudie, 15 miles from Moree. The damage is…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Damage exceeding £30,000 was caused by a fire which gutted a building occupied by…
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ADELAIDE, Wed.—Cargo damage in the British freighter, Willesde[?] which caught fire last week while carrying a cargo of…
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A fire, which broke out at 3 o’clock this morning, gutted a lock-up weatherboard shop conducted by Miss Weatherall in Ad[?]-street,…
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Whilst Messrs. W. P. Chapman, C. H. Peel anil B. Mitchell, of Taree, were proceeding to Sydney by car last week, the vehicle caught fire near…
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