Red Planes Start Fires at Warsaw
LONDON, Wednesday.—Fully 24 large fires, many near German headquarters, and 30 smaller fires were caused in Warsaw by…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 22
Another Morning Fire
There was another small fire in Hunter Street early this morning Constable Platt, about 1.45 a.m. noticed a fire at the back of…
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A quantity of timber caught fire near the Niagara Cake Factory at Cook's Hill last night. The fire was extinguished by Cook's Hill Fire…
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Prompt action by Constable Platt checked a fire in the Kenya Cafe, Hunter-street, early yesterday morning…
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LONDON, Sept. 4.—A message from Patna Bihar says that it is officially stated that three people were killed at the Lakhisarai…
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Presentations of long service medals to firemen in the Newcastle, Maitland and coalfields districts were made by the Chief…
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LONDON, September 6.—A youth of 16½, who fired at a police patrol in Belfast, is in hospital with bullet wounds received when the police…
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SYDNEY: To safeguard crops and timber against bushfires and possible incendiary air raids, the Bush Fires Advisory Committee…
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Crs. E. Gain and S. M. Browne introduced a deputation to the Board of Fire Commissioners at Morisset. It comprised Messrs. P. Clack and E…
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A small fire which caused slight damage occurred about 1.50 a.m. to-day amongst a number of packing cases in Royal Court, off…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—A fire of mysterious origin swept through the 24,000.ton U.S…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Exemption for personnel engaged in civil defence from call-ups by the Army and the Allied Works Council and…
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NEW YORK, September 9.—America's largest liner, the 24,000-ton Manhattan, now the United States navy transport Wakefield, was…
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SYDNEY.—Fire broke out in a passenger compartment of the southward-bound Melbourne Express when near Henty carly…
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NEW YORK, September 10.—Mystery shrouds the fire in America's largest liner, the 24,000-ton Manhattan, now the United Staten navy…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Crouching behind lorries police fired 100 shots in quarter of an hour before they stormed a house in…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The southward bound Melbourne Express was delayed for six minutes when a fire broke out in a passenger…
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Seeing smoke coming from the home of Thomas Clancy, in Georgetown Road, Waratah, late yesterday afternoon, a neighbor…
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LONDON: The possibility that pieces of explosives were used to build up a fire in preparation for a cooking exercise was mentioned by the Coroner at an inquest at Richmond, Surrey, on five Home Guards who lost their…
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Overcome by smoke and shock, Thomas Clancy, 36, of Georgetown-road, Waratah, was found by a neighbour and dragged to safety…
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