Two gunmen die in blazing Paris fire
PARIS, Sun.; Two gunmen died in a blazing Paris flat last night after a two-hour battle with more than 40 police. One of the gangsters was…
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Cigarette lighter cause of big fire
CHEJU ISLAND (Korea), Mon.; A carelessly filled cigarette lighter was blamed today for the fire that ravaged Cheja…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: Firemen rescued a former South Australian senator and his daughter from the top floor of their…
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Albury Fire Brigade was called to two fires yesterdayâone at Ebden street at 4 a.m. and the other in Mount street at 2.22 p.m…
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Chief officer of the Victorian Country Fire Authority (Mr. C. A. Daw) announced yesterday that, although the summer period…
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TEL AVIV, Tues.: Israeli and Syrian shore batteries opened fire at each other across the northern sector of the Sea of Galilee…
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LONDON. Wed.: Fire broke out yesterday in the boiler of the British destroyer, Zest, in Chatham dockyard, Thick smoke…
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Albury Fire Brigade was called; to a fire in grass and sawdust on a vacant block in Alexander street, East Albury, early yesterday afternoon…
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Bush fire captains or their deputies are not authorised to commandeer or direct the usage of private vehicles even in the…
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Mr and Mrs F. Kowalewski, of Albury rd., Corowa, last night lost all their possessions in a fire which destroyed their home. Neither was at home…
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Fire gutted a £6000 cement brick home and destroyed furniture and other contents valued at about £700 on a wheat property near Rand on Thursday afternoon…
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Albury Fire Brigade was kept busy yesterday with calls to four small grass and scrub fires. First call was received shortly after,…
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Albury Fire Brigade had one call during the weekendâto a new Triumph motor cycle which caught fire after backfiring in…
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MELBOURNE, Sun. : Police are investigating several deliberate attempts to set fire to the Sabloniere Hotel in…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Fire completely gutted a garage owned by Mr. Leslie Esler and Son at Koowee-rup on the Gippsland…
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MEXICO CITY Sun.: Police fired shots and used tear gas to break up a riot by 14,000 angry spectators who last night attempted to set fire to the municipal auditorium when a basketball…
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A small fire that was reported soon after nine oâclock on Sunday evening was extinguished in a few minutes by Deniliquin Fire…
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When fire completely destroyed a 4 roomed weatherboard dwelling at the corner of Honour Avenue and Youth…
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At about 11.30 a.m. on Tuesday a fire burnt about 30 acres of stubble and some fencing on the property of Byrnes Bros.,…
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Albury fire brigade was called to a small grass fire on Peopleâs Hill, near the Technical College, yesterday afternoon The blaze…
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