Sparrow Blamed For Fire
LONDON, July 27.—A sparrow, carrying a lighted cigarette butt to It nest, Is believed, to have started a fire which destroyed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
309 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 16
Plane’s Engine on Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A Trans[?] Australia Airlines Douglas air[?] made an emergency landing at Holbrook aerodrome,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Nearly £1000 of damage was done to two floors by fire at 387 George-street last night…
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I am the worst hand in the world, Mr. Editor, at making a fire, and the kerosene is handy. I was always told it was a disgrace to use it. Maybe I…
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Maitland Fire Brigade late yesterday afternoon received a call to Elgin-street to extinguish flames which had enveloped a motor cycle…
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Two young women were injured when they threw kerosene on fires at their respective homes on Wednesday. Valda Jenkins, [?] of Wollombi-rd.,…
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Maitland Fire Brigade was called to a haystack fire in a paddock owned by Dutton and Scoble, Bolwarra-road, yesterday…
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BATAVIA, August 1,—Cease-fire order to the Dutch and Indonesian Republican forces are to be issued at 12.30 p.m., on August 3, the UNO Commission announced to-day. The order Will become effective some days later, at a…
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Maitland Fire Brigade early this afternoon extinguished a fire in a fish vat at a shop, owned by R. Hughes in Station-st.,…
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NEW YORK, August 7. — At least 11 people have died and two are missing In a forest fire in the Montana mountains…
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Thirteen fire fighters, including 12 parachutists, have died in a fierce forest fire which is still raging in Montana (U.S.)…
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HELENA (Montana), August 8—Thirteen fire-fighters including 12 parachutes have now died in a fierce forest fire which is still raging in the Montana mountains. Only three of the 13 parachutists who humped on Saturday…
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CESSNOCK: Fire erly last [?] damage the eastern wall [?] weatherboard garage in Cessn[?] street, Cessnock, near the rail[?]…
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—At least 15 people were burned to death when a Greyhound Line tourist bus overturned and burst Into…
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The Government will, in the near future, introduce legislation to more effectively combat the menace of bush fires. Cabinet has now…
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PARIS, August 18.—With damage already estimated at many hundreds of millions of francs, mass unemployment is feared In areas ravaged…
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SANTIAGO (Chile), Aug. 18.— Troops and police used tear gas and bullets to disperse students overturning and stoning buses…
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HELSINKI August 19. — One striker was killed and six strikers and 10 policemen injured when police opened fire…
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All available troops and forest fire fighters have been rushed to the La Rochelle region, whore 12,000 bombs, dispersed around the airfield,…
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PARIS, August 19—Police requisitioned all available vehicles to evacuate women and children from a radius of six miles throughout the La Rochelle airfield yesterday after 12,000 450lb bombs exploded as a forest fire swept through…
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