Items of News Nathan Avenue Fire
Nathan [?] is one of the places with which Albury Fire Brigade is most fam[?] Yesterday afternoon at lived [?] to its [?] for grass…
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£10,000 Damage by Fire SYDNEY
Damage estimated at £10000 was caused by a petrol explosion and fire which gutted the furniture store of Messrs. Barron and Martin at Bondi…
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In 1946 Albury Fire Brigade put out 100 fires, none of them very big. In the winter, fires averaged only three or four a month, but each summer…
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One of the Australian-assembled Lincolns standing by at Point Cook for bushfire patrol duty. Two Lincolns and two Liberators have allotted for anti-bushfire duties, working in close contact with the Victorian Forests Commission radio outposts…
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When a spark from the chimney at the Riverina steam laundry yesterday set light to a stack of boiler wood in the yard, employes fought the flames…
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The bushire [?] had been reduced by last week’s soaking rains, and there would be plenty of feed in the pastoral country, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Items of News Two Grass Fires
Long grass caught fire at the old showgrounds and at the cemetery last evening, apparently deliberately lit. The fire brigade was called to the old…
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At the last meeting of the Jingellic Bush Fire Brigade, Mr. Clarence Sheather was elected captain and Mr. Angus McVean secretary. Decided…
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Albury Fire Brigade dealt with a grass fire at Howlong road yesterday afternoon. Such fires, usually thought to have been started deliberately, have…
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A fire broke out in the liner C[?] which is nearing completion at the Camm[?], Laird shipyard at Birkenhead early to-day…
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If is now expected that the ban on Sunday trains throughout Victoria will not operate for at least another fortnight…
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Sir,--In Tuesday's issue of the "Free Press" appears an expression of gratitude from Mr. E. C Nicholson, for assistance received in…
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The Baden-Baden radio has reported that 25 miners, including six German prisoners of war, were killed in a fire in a [?] mine…
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Proximity of the police station apparently did not deter someone from [?]etting alight a patch of dry grass just off the police lane at lunch time…
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Five children, whose ages ranged from 3[?] to 13 [?] were burned to death when fire destroyed a miner’s home at Askern, near Doncaster…
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One of New York’s most costly waterfront fires for many years destroyed two Hudson River piers, causing damage estimated at [?] dollars…
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January and February are the danger months for bushfires, the chief officer of the Rural Fire [?] (Mr. C. A. Dew) said today…
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Twelve people have been killed and 110 injured in Bombay riots in the last 24 hours. There have also been cases of arson in disturbances…
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Apparently c[?] after having been ov[?] by smoke and fume, when fighting a bu[?] near her residence at Maida Vale on Friday. Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Damage of £200
A fire at T. Lawrence and Sons cool stores in Johnson street. Wagga, at the week-end caused £200 damage to the refrigeraton plant. It broke out in a…
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