Police Fire on U.S. Ambulance
LONDON, March 20. A.A.P.—Police from an ambush fired on an American Army ambulance which failed to stop when signalled near…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 30
Fire on U.s. Liner Extinguished
LONDON, March 21. A.A.P.—All the fire-fighting resources of the Mersey dockside were brought into action to extinguish a fire on the…
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KURE, March 21. A.A.P.—Exploding ammunition hampered fire-fighters when four two-storied barrack buildings housing Australian Air Force…
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KURE, Saturday.—When the tiled roof of a billet caved in during a fire at Ujina, near Hiroshima, three members of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Destroys Three Buildings At Tottenham
TOTTENHAM.—Residents were called from their beds to fight a fire which broke out at 3 a.m. today in a bulk store at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£40,000 Fire Damage to Sawmill
MARYBOROUGH, Sunday.—Damage estimated at £40,000 was caused by a fire at the sawmills of J. Fairlie and Sons Pry. Ltd. It is one…
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BATAVIA, March 25. A.A.P.—More than one-third of the southern part of Bandoeng, Java's prewar summer capital, has been burnt down by Indonesian extremists…
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LONDON, Monday.—Fires broke out yesterday on two ships in the Scheldt Estuary (Antwerp). Flames engulfed No. 2 hold on…
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ANTWERP, March 26. A.A.P.—A fire broke out on two ships in the Scheldt Estuary. Flames enrulfed the number 2 hold of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Damaged Fibro-Plaster Factory
Portion of a building occupied by Fibro-Plaster Manufacturers, Union-street, Tighe's Hill, was damaged by fire yesterday afternoon…
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LITHGOW, Thursday.—A cat warned a man early this morning that his house was on fire. Betty Powyer said the cat had cone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heard Men Talking £250,000 Blaze "Not Accident"
PERTH, Monday.—The Nungarin Army Ordnance fire, which caused damage on February 10 estimated at £250,000, is being investigated at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shires Offered "Walkie-Talkies" To Fight Fires
SYDNEY, Monday.—Shire councils were being given special facilities to busy modern radio equipment from the Department of Munitions,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Troops Fight Fires In Java Town
BATAVIA, April 3. A.A.P.—Allied guns shelled extremist concentrations in the Bandoeng area, where about 100 Indonesians had forced an…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—John Edwin Cook, fire enginedriver, of Kogarah, was found guilty at Redfern Court to-day of negligent driving and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) said to-day that the lighting of fires in the open was now permitted between 7 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Pulled Cricket Final From Fire
FACED with collapse in its first innings in the Newcastle District Cricket Association first grade final on Saturday, Maitland recovered so…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—"There is not a week, not a day, not an hour, to be lost in the task of defeating Labour in 1946," said the Leader of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Fire at Wickham
Cook's Hill and Tighe's Hill brigades were called to a fire in timber at the P.M.G.'s depot, Wickham, yesterday. It was put out with…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Electrical equipment and machinery in the blower room at Eveleigh Railway Work-shops, Redfern, were badly damaged…
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