Diners Ignored Fire Warning
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When fire broke out on the fifth. floor of the Post-office Chambers, George-street, to-night, a man who ran into a Zion…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 30
Garden Hose Put Fire Out
A small fire in a laundry, at the rear of a cottage in Cleary-street, Hamilton, yesterday morning, was put out with a garden hose. Cook's…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday. — The South Australian Farmers' Union's box storage shed at Mile End was gutted by fire to-day. Damage is…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—With conditions hot and dry in New South Wales, there is a general danger of bushfires. The…
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A fire which broke out this morning in a coal filled hatch of the steamer Colac at No. 6 basin was quickly extinguished by the crew…
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NEW YORK, Dec. 19. A.A.P. —The Balkans friction had started a smouldering fire which might burst into flame…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission to-day granted an increase in pay of 7/ a week to fire brigade station,…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—With temperatures throughout the State soaring well over the century, fires broke out in many areas to-day. Twenty fires were reported in country districts,…
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A small fire which broke out in a cargo of coal in the hold of S.S. Colac, at Dyke End yesterday morning, was extinguished by Cook's Hill Fire Brigade…
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A new engine, carrying the latest appliances for fighting all kinds of fires, has been added to the fleet at Cook's Hill Fire Station…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Damage estimated at £18,000 was caused when a factory and timber yard owned by W. C. Cone and Company, shipping…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Firemen put on respirators to fight a fire in a mixed goods shop in Stony Creekroad, Bexley, early to-day…
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Extinguishers were used to quell a small fire in the roof of Steggles Ltd., Tudor Street. Hamilton, today. Cook's Hill and Tighe's Hill Brigades…
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Brigades were called to two small fires yesterday. Hamilton and New Lambton brigades went to burning bush at…
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LONDON, Dec. 23. A.A.P.—Fire broke out on the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line ship, Esperance Bay (14,204 tons), at the Royal…
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ATLANTA (Georgia), Dec. 24 A.A.P.—The proprietors of the Wine-coff Hotel, where 121 persons died in a fire on December 7, were…
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PERTH, Thursday.—Started by a spark from the exhaust of a tractor, the worst fire in the history of Wangan Hills (132 miles north-east of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Riverview Cabaret at Tom Ugly's Point was destroyed by fire early this morning. The fire broke out about two hours…
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A grass fire at Birmingham Gardens yesterday was extinguished by Waratah and Wallsend Fire Brigades, using one hydrant and knapsack…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Handbags and gloves were destroyed or damaged when a fire broke out in a display window at Snow's Ltd.,…
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