Comet was like fire ball
CALCUTTA, Mon.: The British Overseas Airways Comet jet-liner which crashed near Calcutta on Saturday, killing all…
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Check on Hospital Fire Extinguishers
Left to right : M. Nicholson, apparatus officer, A. Phillips, captain, Pet Seccul, foreman, and W. Brear, lieutenant of the Tarrawanna Fire Brigade, checking the fire extinguishers at the Yarrawonga Hospital…
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On Sunday, at about 8.30, the three-roomed weatherboard cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Keeney, off the Coolamon road…
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ADELAIDE, Thurs.: A 27 year-old volunteer in the Crystal Brook Fire Brigade was today sentenced to nine…
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Rural Fire Brigade Association No. 23 region demonstration on the recreation reserve at Springhurst was an outstanding success…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Fire destroyed portion of the old Tattersalls stand at Flemington racecourse early this afternoon. Dam…
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PUSAN, Sun.: It was announced yesterday that two British soldier guards and a Korean were burned to death on Friday night in a…
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Mr. O. Dan[?] responsible [?]istaion of the [?] Fire Brigade [?]…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: The entire population of the Victorian township of Wye River, near Lome, turned out to fight- a bush fire which crept to within a few yards of homesteads on the outskirts of the town this afternoon…
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TORONTO, Mon.: Forest fires swept across thousands of acres in Ontario yesterday, as more than 1000 rangers battled without…
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COLUMBUS (Ohio), Monday: Eighteen horses valued at 52,000 dollars were either suffocated or fatally burned in a fire which…
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Fire took only Half on hour to destroy the weatherboard home of a young police constable at Tallangatta yesterday afternoon. Starting about 4 o’clock…
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At the annual meeting of Bright Fire Brigade fireman G. Smith was elected captain, fireman Les Ortlipp lieutenant and fireman Nick…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: A mother and her 50-year-old son were -Burned to death in a farm cottage at Rosemont, near Goulburn, late last,…
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At a meeting last night, Albury and Border Trades and Labor Council decided to back the NSW Fire Brigade…
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WAGGA, Wed.: Mr. Justice Herron told a special Supreme Court sitting In Wagga today that he would not order the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Winsor) to give evidence today, despite the fact he had been…
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Dramatic incidents, including the rescue of an injured man from the flames, occurred during a fire which destroyed the…
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CAIRO Thurs,: British forces today were reported to have opened fire on Egyptians in the Suez Canal village of Kafr Abdou. The brief reports from the district said that…
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WAGGA, Thurs.: The condition of a fire break on the northern side of Mangoplah The Rock railway line was such that it would have been better if it had not been ploughed a…
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SYDNEY, Sun.; Fire [?]stroyed a two storey weatherboard building, and 14 boats in [?] st., Balmain. Damage is…
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