Items of News Chimney Fire
A fire in a chimney in a house in Reserve st. was quickly brought under control by the Albury Fire Brigade last evening. Volunteer…
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Waradgery Shire Local Government Dept. Criticised No Hasty Decision on Fire Equipment
AN urgent request by the Department of Local Government to forward an estimate of fire fighting equipment required by the Waradgery Shire Council was criticised at a meeting of the Council at Hay yesterday…
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NEW YORK, Monday : A spectacular fire broke out yesterday at the scene of the devastating explosion on Friday…
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A conference of bushfire brigades in the Holbrook Shire was held at Holbrook. Holbrook Council was…
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A sedan car was destroyed by fire at 8 a.m. yesterday on Hume Highway, seven miles from Wodonga. It was owned…
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A doctor and a nurse were burned to death when trapped by a fire at a London hospital. The nurse’s charred body was found in the operating…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused by fire which almost completely destroyed the 50-year-old wool…
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HALIFAX, Fri.: Heavy fog and lack of wind late yesterday stood off the fiercest of the huge bushfires raging in Nova Scotia and…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Fifteen New Australians were injured, four seriously, and about 250 others were…
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Just as members of the wool-classing, class were arriving at the Literary Institute yesterday, after lunch, smoke was seen issuing from a small…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Members of Deniliquin Fire Brigade
Deniliquin Fire Brigade recently held a successful demonstration jointly with a massed band display. Here the team in the hose and reel event heat we waiting for the starter, Mr. C. Simpson, to drop the flag. Mr. A. Daws stands in the centre (foreground)…
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ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland ), Mon.: The Newfoundland Government yesterday ordered immediate preparations for the mass sea…
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ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland), Tues.: Heavy rain swept Newfoundland yesterday removing the forest fire threat to two fishing…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: Hundreds of homeward bound workers watched three fire brigades fight a £10,000 blaze which gutted the…
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ANN HARBOR (Michigan), Wednesday : Damage estimated at £1,339,286 was caused by the fire which destroyed Haven Hall…
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LA PLATA (Argentina). Wed.: Three persons were burned to death and 10 others were seriously injured yesterday when fire…
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LONDON, Fri.: Yesterday’s fire on the Birmingham-Glasgow Express In which live lives were lost may have been…
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Two women, two young children, and a man, believed to hove been members of one family, were burned to death lost night when flames swept three coaches of the Speeding…
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Fire yesterday caused slight damage to a motor cycle at the corner of Olive and Guinea [?]ts. The rider quickly brought the…
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Annual meeting of the ‘Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Myrtleford Urban Fire Brigade was held at the fire station. The election of…
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