“Fire Risk Very Grave”
Persistent hot weather had made the fire risk very grave, Chief Fire Officer H. Pettit said yesterday…
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41 Deaths Fire “Confession”
DEVENPORT (lowa), Friday : A young woman patient was reported yesterday to have confessed to setting the…
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Mr P. J. Tresize, in charge of the Bonegilla fire unit, directing the engine’s hose on to a section of…
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The carburettor of a car owned by Mr. C. W. Briese, Jindera, caught fire near the corner of Young and Perry streets, Albury,…
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ON the third day of the Bethanga bush fire trees were still burning and some of the grass yesterday was smouldering. Over 200 men again stood by in…
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Albury Fire Brigade yesterday quickly extinguished a grass fire on a vacant allotment in Paine street. No damage was caused…
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SIX grass fires, which burnt over areas ranging from a quarter of an acre to about 50 acres, were caused by lightning in Albury district on Saturday. No serious damage was…
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Fire gutted a house in Union Lane, North Albury, on Saturday afternoon. Cause of the fire is believed to have…
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When lighting struck this tree on a hill opposite “Bethanga Park” homestead on Saturday it started a fire which destroyed about 30 acres of grass…
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A truck load of migrant fire fighters who were quickly on the scene when lightning started a fire…
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A fire which broke out shortly after 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon on Mr. W. Muller's property, four miles from Wodonga on the…
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Yesterday, afternoon the homestead on the property of Mr. Jack Snell, Lindifferon Road, was destroyed by a bush…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: A fire destroyed wool estimated to be worth £200,000 stacked in a shed at Brooklyn tonight…
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DARWIN, Mon: A fire in the office of the Alice Springs paper the “Centralian Advocate,” gutted the building and two others,…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: When a kerosene stove exploded early this morning live huts at Bonnie Dale camping area, Bundeen,…
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COLORADO SPA SPRINGS, Wed: One soldier was killed, six were critically injured and 21 others seriously burned yesterday…
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BRISBANE, Thurs.: Police investigating a fire in a private garage at Wavell Heights believe that it was arranged in a…
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CHICAGO, Fri.: The mid-east flood waters, the worst in 13 years, showed signs yesterday of [?] their force…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Thousands of pounds of damage was caused when a fire almost completely gutted a sailmaker’s premises…
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Sir,—Please allow me to thank Thurgoona Bush Fire Unit, manned by Capt. Heywood, and Bongilla Fighting Unit, under Mr…
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