Soldiers Trained to Fight Fires
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Using lessons learned in bush fires in Victoria and New South Wales, specialised civilian, firefighters are…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
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Boys Blamed for Cottage Fires
SYDNEY, Friday.—Police allege that fires which damaged two cottages to-day were started by boy incendiarists…
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Newcastle will meet Industries in the final of the Newcastle NES Fire Guards' Zone Competition at No. l Sports Ground at 10 am…
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Fire guards attached to Newcastle N.E.S. competed yesterday to select representatives who will meet the industries teams in northern zone…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—In his report on the Yallourn fire to-night Judge Stretton said there was no general plan of any real value to…
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SYDNEY Tuesday.—The Fire Brigades (Amendment) Bill, which proposes to reduce the working week of permanent members of the fire…
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 28. A.A.P.—Twenty-one persons were fatally burned and 22 severely injured early to-day when a fire swept…
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Because the Department of War Organisation of Industry will not permit the proposed expenditure for a new church,…
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Zone finals in the N.E.S. fire guards competition will be held at No. 1 Sportsground at 10 a.m. on Sunday. Teams from the industries…
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"Nobody knows exactly what happened, but I am satisfied that this was purely an accident," said the District Coroner…
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Tram traffic in Hunter Street was held up between 1.15 and 1.30 p.m. this afternoon, when a resistance box attached to a…
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When a resistance box in a tramcar caught fire in Hunter-street, near Wolfe-street, on Saturday, tram traffic was held up for about 15…
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LONDON, Sunday.—Four baby boys and a baby girl were burned to death yesterday. The fire occurred at a house in Surrey, which…
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Waratah State Electoral Council yesterday decided to send the following items for the agenda for the June Conference—…
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HARDEN.—A bushfire swept through pastureland 12 miles from Harden yesterday and laid waste 15,000 acres…
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A sharp division of opinion on the new Coal Control Act among leaders of the Miners' Federation was disclosed at…
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Belmont Urban Area Committee decided to ask the Fire Commissioners to select a site for a new fire station after the war…
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Subscriptions to the First Victory Loan were hanging fire in a most disappointing manner, said the Northern War Loan Organiser (Mr…
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Firemen from headquarters were called to a grass fire in Bull-street, Newcastle, yesterday afternoon. Toronto brigade extinguished a grass…
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MELBOURNE.—Nine of about 250 people were injured when 14,000 feet of cinematograph film caught alight and set fire to a…
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