Fire Hoses Used to Quell Riot In Women's Gaol "Herald" Service
LONDON, Dec. 12.—Jets of icy water from fire hoses stopped riot among 300 "Borstal girls" at Aylesbury gaol…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 22
Wallsend Tramway Fire
Scene of a number of previous [?]es, the tramway enclosure between White Gates (Wallsend) and Jesmond was again ablaze yesterday…
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SYDNEY.—Only for good work by the local fire brigade, recently formed, the only hotel in St. Marys would have gone up in…
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GOSFORD.—A missing fire brigade truck, travelling toward Sydney, was chased by a police truck on Pacific Highway early this…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The home of Joseph Hariman, a cripple, was destroyed, and four firemen had a narrow escape when a bush fire swept the Ryde area to-day…
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Offers of clothing, beets, bedding ana a table as well as donations of money were made today to Mrs. Doreen Hunter, whose small…
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SYDNEY.—Despite the efforts of a matron and a 15-year-old cripple a fire which broke out in a cottage at the Dr. Barnado's home near…
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GOSFORD, Monday.—Four naval ratings, who, it is alleged, took and illegally used a fire brigade truck in Sydney yesterday, were arrested…
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A woman and three young children lost all their possessions in a fire which razed their home at "Hollywood," near Lambton, during yesterday's heat. The highest temperature for ten years, 106…
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A BUSHFIRE warning was given in the Weather Bureau forecast for the Newcastle district…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A fire in a cottage at Dr. Barnardo's homes, near Picton, yesterday destroyed all the boys' Christmas toys and food…
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The holiday rush on trains is expected to begin tomorrow but, according to Newcastle officials, the large number of people who have…
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Three grass fires in the district yesterday were extinguished by local brigades before they did any damage. Adamstown attended an…
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ROME, December 20. A.A.P.—The American steamer, Nathaniel Baker, carrying U.N.R.R.A. cargo, flour, and medical stores to Italy, caught fire…
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Wallsend Fire Brigade yesterday attended a grass fire on the embankment of the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company's railway, off…
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TOKIO, Monday.—Twe've American officers and men were killed yesterday in a fire in a large two-storey building which had been taken over…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The only fire alarm in Sydney to-day was caused by a cigarette butt which is believed to have…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Hundreds of farms in the Bunyip (Gippsland) district are threatened by a big bushfire which is out of…
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Fire brigades attended eight grass fires in the Newcastle district yesterday. They were put out before doing any serious damage…
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LAUNCESTON, Thursday.—Forestry offices and hundreds of volunteers are fighting the worst bushfires for years in…
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