Chimney on Fire
At about 5.40 yesterday evening the local Fire Brigade received a call to Milne’s bakery where a chimney was on fire. The whole brigade promptly…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
189 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 10
Ship on Fire Seventy Missing Port Said
Seventy persons, including women and children, are missing, and feared killed, from the “Empire Patrol” 3330 tons, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cease Fire in Indo-china Temporary Lull in Bid For Independence Allies Await French Reinforcements HANOI
According to Nguyen Hai Than, leader of the new "Political Party Union of Revolutionary Parties of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Well Site For Fire-Fighting Purposes
A small block of land at the rear of the Guyra post office has been acquired as a site for a well for use by the Guyra fire brigade. A letter…
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SYDNEY, Saturday— A 13-year-old boy is alleged to have hidden in the bush at Bexley North to watch a house…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Causes
When a bushfire sweeps across the country, destroying crops, homes, timber, and soil, killing stock and perhaps human beings—don’t suppose it…
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Shortly before 2 p.m. yesterday the fire siren sounded and firemen from all over the town responded while the engine was cranked up and got going…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Causes
When a bushhire sweeps across the country, destroying crops, homes, timber and soil, killing stock and perhaps human beings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Liquid Fuel Fire Danger Eliminated
A new safety liqued fuel that has all the power characteristics of 100 octane petrol has been evolved by technologists of the Standard Oil…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush Fire Danger Appeal to Councils to Overhaul Equipment
During the 1941-45 bush fire season 313 outbreaks of fire were reported by the police to the Bush Fires Advisory…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Troopship on Fire Passengers Rescued Safely SINGAPORE
Passengers on board the 7900-ton British troopship Takliwa, when it caught fire and went aground-off Nicobar Islands in the Indian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Protection Armidale Facilities May be Reduced City Council's Protest
Unless the Armidale City Council can impress upon the Board of Fire Commissioners the importance of having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush Fire Warning SYDNEY
The Fire Brigade and Weather Bureau issued a warning of serious bushfires this afternoon. One fire has already broken out at Leura in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire Armidale Brigade's Fine Work Extension of Blaze Averted
Two weatherboard cottages were in serious danger of being destroyed, and others were jeopardized, when an unoccupied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Warning
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A bush fire warning was issued to-day by the acting State Meteorologist, Mr. Newman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Army Tanks to Fight Fires
SYDNEY Tuesday.—The use of converted Army tanks in unreticulated areas as fire fighting machines was urged…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There were remarkable scenes at the Sydney wharf yesterday is hundreds of girts, many of girls, many of them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nine Injured Fire Engine Collides With Tram
SYDNEY, Thursday. —Four firemen and five civilians were injured late yesterday when a five engine racing to answer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Creek and the Bush Fire
Watercourses are useful firebreaks — but not always. The Bush Fires Advisory Committee reports that a small fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blaze at Armidale Timber Shed Destroyed Oil-soaked Wood Burns Fiercely
Fanned by a strong northwesterly wind, ashes in a heap at the rear of the Armidale power house ignited this…
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