Belmont Fire Classification Council Request Refused
The Fire and Accident Under-writers Association has refused an application by Lake Macquarie Shire Council for a reclassification of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
439 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 22
Warsaw's Second Ordeal Of Fire
LONDON, Friday. — "I pay homage to your dead." said the Polish Present (M. Raczklewicz), broadcasting from…
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Farm implements and 400 chickens valued at £200 were destroyed by fire when a shed on the poultry farm owned by Sidney…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.— The car in which the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) was travelling to Canberra from Sydney to-day caught…
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A fire between ceiling and roof of the Majestic Cafe, Wolfe-street, last night, was put out by firemen before it did serious damage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armoured Units Smash Way to Near Dutch Frontier Siegfried Line Under Fire; Luxembourg Liberated
LONDON September 11. A.A.P.—British armoured units have smashed through the German defence lines at one point behind the Albert Canal, in Belgium, and have crossed the next water barrier, the Escaut Canal, a little…
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The motor launch, Toronto, which carries workers between the Steel Works and North Stockton, was destroyed by fire while tied up at…
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CANBERRA. — The State Governments have been allowed to divert for ordinary fire-fighting needs some of the equipment…
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SYDNEY. — Mr Charles David Alexander Richardson. Chief Officer of NSW Fire Brigades since January. 1936. died suddenly…
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On the night of July 23, somebody broke into the flat occupied by Mrs. Elsie Olivia Young, in Maitland Road. Mayfield, and…
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Indications were that the person who took property from the premises set the place alight to cover up his tracks, the Coroner (Mr. A…
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LONDON, Sept. 19. A.A.P.—R.A.F. Lancasters last night dropped 420,000 incendiary bombs in 20 minutes on the German port of…
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CANBERRA. Wednesday.—Reports in newspapers that live bombs were carried from a fire in Sydney last night were grossly exaggerated,…
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LONDON, Sept. 21. A.A.P.—A furiously blazing American bomber ploughed a way through a street, of small houses on the outskirts of…
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LONDON. — In brief outline the BBC told its European listeners details of the most spectacular act of sabotage accomplished by…
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Lysaght's N.E.S. Fire Guards held a field day at Kotara yesterday. They gave demonstrations in dealing with various types of fires…
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LONDON, September 24. A.A.P.—The Germans are sweeping a wide stretch of the lower Rhine in Holland with devastating fire in an attempt to prevent British troops from crossing the river to make contact with the airborne forces that are encircled in the Arnhem area…
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SYDNEY.âA bushfire warning to central and southern inland areas has been issued by the Divisional Meteorologist…
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DISASTER: Fire destroyed the pattern shop at Bradford and Kendall's engineering works, Alexandria, yesterday. Many valuable patterns have been lost…
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Extensive bush fires could occur on the Coalfields during coming months said the officer in charge of Cessnock Fire Brigade (Mr. W. Maunsell)…
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