Items of News Chimney Fire
Albury Fire Brigade attended a chimney fire at the home of Mr T. Norman, 432 Dean st., on Saturday afternoon. There was no damage…
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Sydney People to Aid Bush Fire Victims
Border district farmers and graziers will benefit from the NSW Bush Fire Rehabilitation Appeal opened in Sydney…
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stevens of Maude were burnt out by a fire in their house near Maude yesterday…
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A small area of dry grass was burned last week in the vicinity of the southern water tower at the railway yards. Cause of the…
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MILDURA, Mon.: Fire caused damage estimated at thousands of pounds at the Sunraysia flour mills today. The complete…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: Flames trapped 10 firemen in the four-storey premises of Andrews Laboratories, at the corner of Kent and…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: Damage estimated at more than £150,000 was caused in Melbourne’s most spectacular fire for many years this afternoon when a paint factory was completely…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Firemen attended four major fires within 12 hours during yesterday and early today—one of them the most…
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A mat and a woman’s coat were destroyed by fire last night when a niece of wood fell out of a fuel stove in the kitchen of the home…
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Burning off in the Rutherglen district created the impression from Dight’s Hill last evening that there was a serious blaze in…
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Firemen put out a small grass fire in Miller street on Monument Hill with knapsack sprays yesterday afternoon. The fire was the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Did Not Heed the Fire Siren
On several occasions lately motorists who have not heeded the fire engine siren have had narrow escapes from serious…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Two men lost their lives is if of bursts received in a bush fire which had started as the result of negligence by a railway repair gang when burning off near…
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Albury Fire Brigade yesterday attended, three fires. The first was at 6.55 a.m. at Blackie House, Albury Hospital, when a gas jet broke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorists not compelled to “give way” to fire engines
Motorists are not compelled by law to give way to a fire engine proceeding to a fire, although they are expected to do so “out courtesy,” Chief Fire Officer H. Pettit said yesterday…
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MONTREAL, Fri.: Paper bags filled with water and dropped from low-flying aircraft would slow down spreading forest…
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SOMERSET (Pennsylvania) Fri.: A disabled coalminer. His wife and six of their children were burned to death when a…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Nearly 1000 sheep were burned to death and scores of miles of fencing were destroyed when the worst bush fire since the height of the summer ravaged several sheep stations near Casterton during the week-end…
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DENVER (Colorado), Sun.: The bodies of two firemen were taken from the gutted ruins of a three-storey building today after…
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RANGOON, Mon.: Over 3000 Karen rebels yesterday simultaneously attacked and burned down three towns—Sitkwim,…
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