Truck Load on Fire
A truck driver and his workmate carried kerosene tins full of water a distance of about 100 yards to keen a fire in…
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Fire Brigade Called To Three Grass Fires
Hot winds yesterday fanned three grass fires in the district, which were well alight before they were extinguished by…
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District firemen have extinguished 10 grass fires in Wollongong and Port Kembla in the last two days…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday. - Two farmers died today from burns they received when they were trapped in a grass fire near…
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Several homes were threatened and two outbuildings were destroyed by a bush fire at Coledale Heights on Friday afternoon. Coledale Brigade received the…
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The N.R.M.A. urges motorists, to keep in mind the hazards of fire in their cars…
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A pensioner was severely burned about the body when he fell into a fire while burning rubbish yesterday afternoon in the rear of a house in Railway Stret, Corrimal…
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The Wollongong Fire Brigade saved "Wyuna," a two-storey block of flats at 38 Church Street, yesterday afternoon after fire had Severely damaged a flat and spread to the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday Troops and volunteer fought grass fires throughout the State as tempera…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Falls Into Fire Aged Corrimal Man
An elderly Corrimal resident who fell into a fire in a yard on Tuesday afternoon, was subsequently admitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Room in W'gong Flat Gutted by Fire
The dining room of a flat at 'Wyuna,' 38 Church Street Wollongong was completely gutted by fire on Tuesday…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Communist China's envoy, General Wu Hsin Chuan, yesterday again criticised the United Nations' cease-fire efforts as "trickery and a plot."…
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LAKE SUCCESS,. Thursday (A.A.P). — The United Nations has sent a second cease-fire appeal to the Chinese Communists…
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TOKYO, Friday (AAP).— The Peking Communist Government has rejected the United Nations' invitation…
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An old man was found dead in a burnt-out camp near Lilyvale yesterday. His body was found lying across a bed in a tent which had been destroyed by fire. The man James Milligan, 81…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-Looters smashed shop windows and grabbed goods from them as fire was destroying Prahran Markets…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.-The[?]um identifiable burned body of a man found after firemen had subdued flames in a George…
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CANBERRA, Thursday. — The South African legation and other buildings were gutted in a three-hour blaze which swept, through a section of Canberra's shopping centre at Civic, early…
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