Fireweed Does Cause Fire
A farmer’s barn in the Alstonville district recently caught fire and burned to the ground through fireweed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
321 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 17
Kapok Destroyed In Factory Fire
SYDNEY, Monday.—More than £5000 worth of kapok and horse-hair was destroyed by a fire which swept through the…
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BALBOA, March 28.—The 8297 ton American cargo ship. Santa Rita, carrying 4000 cases of dynamite, is racing toward Balbao…
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The health Inspector (Mr. T. C. Atkinson) reported to Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day that he had served notices on six Miller’s Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sanatorium Fire Kills Nine Patients. Philadelphia
According to the ponce a 26-year-old patient, Nicholas Verna, admits he set fire to a building that killed nine inmates of the Belle Vista sanatorium…
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According to police, a 26- year-old patient, Nicholas Verna, has admitted that he started the fire that killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Global News Inmate Sets Fire to Sanatorium Philadelphia
According to police, a 26-year-old patient, Nicholas Verna, admits he set a fire that killed nine [?]inmates of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Australian News Explosion Sets Fire to Train Rescue Gangs Work Throughout Night Bathurst
Rescue gangs worked feverishly throughout the night to extricate the body of a railway fireman who is pinned under the…
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LONDON, April 8 (AAP).— Three people were' killed, and eight injured when fire swept through three floors of a private…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Albert Charles Bassett, 28, carpenter, of Buckingham-street, North Manly, and his two sons, Lindsay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: The Power Problem Invalid Fails To Rescue Fire Victims
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A former sailor, Robert Ferguson, 32, who is a T.B. sufferer, made a valiant effort to rescue one of the…
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An incapacitated ex-sailor's heroic bid to save baby Gregory Charles Bassett from a tragic death by fire at Manly last night…
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A fire which broke out in the oxy-welding workshop of Mr Logan, in Mary Street, on Friday afternoon caused damage…
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Singapare, Monday, A.A.P. Reuter). Fire broke out last night in an oil dump containing…
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SINGAPORE, April 17—(AAP-Reuter). —A huge fire broke out last night In an oil dump, containing 900,000 gallons of petrol,…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.—When a Are swept an army hut in the emergency hous[?] centre at Watsonia, a baby, Robert…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Arson squad detectives suspect that two small fires in a two-storeyed building at Lakemba last night…
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BERKELEY (California), April 5.—F.B.I. agents are investigating the cause of a fire which destroyed the Atomic Energy…
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FORT WILLIAM (Ontario), April 26.—Eight homes, an apartment house and a timber yard were destroyed yesterday by a…
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NEW DELHI, April 28.—Three people were burned alive and about 2000 homes were wrecked in a fire that devastated the…
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