Death, Panic, Fires—lahore Riots Continue
NEW DELHI, May 16. A.A.P.—Panic prevails in the walled city of Labour (Punjab), where shops and houses are in flames as the communal rioting enters its third day…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 30
Arrests Follow Film Company Fire In Rome
ROME, May 16. A.A.P.—Police arrested 14 employees of the Minerva Film Company, following their claim that the fire on Wednesday,…
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SYDNEY.—A fire, which destroyed a wararobe and damaged the bedroom wail of a flat in Cook street, Gleue, last night, is…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two men, a woman and a baby had a narrow escape from being trapped in a fire which destroyed a large portion of…
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The people of Newcastle were being unnecessarily exposed to fire risk, Mr. H. Evans, of the local section of the Fire Brigades' Union, said…
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Made possible by donations of business people and residents in the Wangi, Lake View and Arcadia areas, a fire reel had been bought…
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Greater Newcastle Council decided last night to protest to the Premier (Mr. McGirr) against the continued closure of Lambton and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blaze of Color for 150Th Celebrations
A blaze of color and light along Hunter Street from Tyrrell Street to the Bank Corner for the 150th Anniversary…
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SYDNEY: Battery acid and fumes from burning duco menaced firemen who fought a blaze in a garage and women's vanity accessories factory…
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CHICAGO, Wednesday: The National Fire Protection Association convention was told that U.S. fires last year cost 10,000…
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LONDON, May 29. A.A.P.—A fire swept 300 acres of health and woodlands on His Majesty's estate at Sandringham…
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Newcastle fire brigades raced to the goods yards late yesterday when a fire broke out in a rail truck near the Customs House. They quickly controlled the blaze. It had been started by a bursting bottle of concentrated hydrochloric acid. Picture shows two Cook's Hill firemen dousing the flames…
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Newcastle fire brigade was called out yesterday when a workman broke a jar of hydrochloric acid in a railway truck at the railway yards…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London's Heat-Wave Causes Freak Fire, Queer Death
LONDON, Tuesday: London, in the fifth day of a heal wave yesterday, had its hottest June day in 90 years, after the warmest June night in a century. The day temperature was 90…
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Fumes and flames enveloped the staircase when her husband threw a match into the hallway of a Cook's Hill residential early on the morning of April 28, Mrs. Clara May Hayes said at Newcastle Quarter Sessions today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Set Fire To Furniture, Gaoled For Five Years
Judge Nield sentenced William Henry Hayes, 50, seaman, at Newcastle Sessions, to five years imprisonment for having maliciously set…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Mrs. Mary McKenzie Guest, 43, was burned to death in her house at Toorak to-day. Her husband, Mr…
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LITHGOW: Lithgow Technical College in Cook Street, was badly damaged by fire, smoke and water this afternoon. The building, which is opposite the…
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LITHGOW.—Mr. A. Durie. of Mort Street. Lithgow, was having his tea last night when informed his garage was on fire…
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GREAT FALLS (Montana), June 8.—The Forest Service plans to use aircraft to combat forest fires this summer…
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