Three Injured in Qld. Train Smash Collision At Cross-over Burning Coal Sets Fire to Trucks BRISBANE
Three people were slightly injured when an excursion train from Emu Park ran into a mixed train bound for…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
271 stories in New England's papers · page 11 of 14
Fire Damages Council Car and Shed
The most spectacular fire in Glen Innes for two years severely damaged a garage and a car at the rear of the Town Hall last night. The damage is estimated at £600…
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WELLINGTON, Saturday.--"I feel ill. I have not had much deep since No. 4 wool store fire. There are only two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Famous Flier Burned in Petrol Blaze Townsville, Saturday--
The famous flier, Ray Parer, was badly burned yesterday in a petrol blaze at Rollingstone, on the Townsville-Ingham…
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A fire broke out early this morning in the chimney of the isolation ward at the Glen Innes District Hospital…
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Recently a practice fire was swiftly extinguished by the newly arrived medium fire float, of the 18th (1st class) Fire Brigade stationed in the port of Trieste. The fire was started aboard one of the wrecks in the S. Sabba area, and within a matter of…
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Ebor Catholic Church was burned down last night. The fire was first noticed shortly before midnight by Mrs. A. Brazel,…
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Ebor Catholic Church was burned down on Tuesday night. The fire was first noticed shortly before midnight by Mrs. A. Brazel…
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MUSWELLBROOK, Saturday --A punter who dropped a match in the betting ring at the races hero yesterday caused…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.--A fire, which severely damaged a fibre plaster works containing 8000 cocoanut fibre mattresses, at…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday. -- The fire in the State pine forest at Newnes, about eight miles from Lithgow is still raging…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--No [?] has fallen in any part of [?] State for the past 48 hours Extreme heat has resulted…
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It took the Inverell Fire Brigade just ten to fifteen minutes yesterday afternoon to completely control a fire which broke out in a shed in Otho Lane…
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A man was severely burned when an explosion occurred in the small trawler, Wake, which was tied up alongside…
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"We chopped some wood and lit a fire, boiled a billy, and had tea, and when we were leaving we poured water…
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The bushfires that are ravaging our pastures and forests would never have occurred if everybody resident or working in the area had been reasonably careful. We make no allegations or charges concerning the outbreaks on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bushfire Danger To-day’s Forecast SYDNEY
The forecast issued for New South Wales for the next 24 hours reads:— Fine, warm to hot, and dusty, north to west winds in central, and…
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The Chief Secretary has again issued an order which virtually imposes a blanket prohibition of the lighting of fires in the…
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The worst bush fire for 15 in the Styx area cm Tues-d yesterday destroyed r 5000 acres of forest and damage estimated at thousands of pounds. > >- It is believed'tfafc:blafce started at the Styx Rive> Mill about…
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A bush fire broke out in timbered country owned by Mr. J. Williams near Mt. Duval early yesterday and burned fiercely for…
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