Bushfire Menace, Holbrook Council Discussion
Control measures employed in fighting the recent disastrous bush fire on Upper Wantagong clearly, indicated the need for…
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Smouldering Fires; Need For Care To Prevent Recurrence
The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Geo. Weir) last week revealed that investigations have shown some alarming instances of the…
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PHILADELPHIA Thurs.: Nine mental patients, five of them chained to concrete slabs, died in a disastrous fire which swept…
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PHILADELPHIA, Fri.: Nicholas Verna, a 26 year-old former G.I., who was an inmate of the Belle Vista sanatorium, which…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Two men died yesterday as a result of a fire and suffocation by deadly fumes at Ascot Vale and South…
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WILMINGTON (Del), Mon.: A spectacular 1,000,000 dollar fire destroyed a big timber yard and damaged nearly 30 adjoining houses…
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NEW YORK, Tues.: The US Lines cargo vessel, American Producer (8228 tons, is on fire at sea, 540 miles south-east of St. John’s,…
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LITHGOW, Tues.: Police today charged three Lithgow schoolboys with attempting to set fire to pit top buildings at two coal mines…
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NEW YORK, Thurs.: Nicholas Verna, 26, a former inmate of the Belle Vista Private Asylum, who confessed that he started a fire…
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TOKIO, Fri.: At least a quarter of the seaside resort of Atami was razed by a disastrous fire which swept the city last…
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At 3 o’clock on Saturday morning a fire broke out at the Tocumwal Community Hospital. The Fire Brigade was quickly…
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Two Indonesian sailors of the British oil tanker Lingula were killed and two were burnt when the vessel caught fire late last night at the island of Pulau Samboe, 12 miles from…
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The Tocumwal Community Hospital building was destroyed by fire in the early hours cd Saturday morning and we join with all Berrigan folk in…
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GOULBURN, Tuesday : A fire broke out in the two-storey women’s section of Kenmore Mental Hospital last night, but was…
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LITHGOW, Tues.: A spectacular fire which lit up the whole of Lithgow and awakened hundreds of residents, caused damage…
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SINGAPORE, Tuesday: Casualties in the oil fire at Pulau Samboe Island, near Singapore, are now five dead, one in…
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On Saturday might last the fire siren Bonded an alarm and very soon the welkin rang with the sound of the tootling fire engines as…
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The Tocumwal Community Hospital building was destroyed by fire in the early hours of Saturday week morning…
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WAGGA, Mon.: A fire, believed to have, been caused by a battery charging machine. totally destroyed Wilson’s garage…
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A fire, which originated in a battery charging machine, resulted in the total destruction of Wilson's Garage at Yerong Creek on Monday afternoon…
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