Two Cars Burn in Junkyard Fire
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two cars were destroyed and three cottages threatened by a fire that swept a junkyard in Holt-street, Newtown,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Police Say £4000 Fire Deliberare
ADELAIDE, Thursday.—A fire, believed by police and fire brigade officials to have been deliberately lit, caused about £4000 damage in…
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Although brigades from Maitland, East Maitland and Homeville were called to the Metropolitan Hotel. West Maitland last night, a garden…
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Two suburban grass fires were attended by Newcastle Fire Brigade yesterday. The fires, in Everton street, Hamilton, and at Stockton…
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MELBOURNE.—Last Sunday's disastrous fire in the Postal Department Building, Underwood Street, Sydney, cost the…
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SYDNEY, Friday—Fire broke out again to-night in Morgan Chambers, George-street, which, with the…
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Cook's Hill and Hamilton Fire Brigades, under Sub-station Officer Lawrence, attended a small fire in the kitchen of a house occupied by…
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Brigades attended two grass fires in the Newcastle district yesterday. One off Nobbys-road was put out by Cook's Hill firemen. The other was…
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LONDON, June 23. A.A.P.—Twelve civil aeroplanes out of a mixed collection of 16 Tiger Moths and Pro[?]rs were completely burned out…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Firemen were splashed with dough to-day when they fought a fire in the flour room of Hawkins and Abberton's bakery,…
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A fire broke out in the bar of the Terminus Hotel. Scott Street, this morning while workmen were catting down an iron…
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Top: Brisbane firemen pour foamite on the fierce flames that shot out from the base of a 2½million gallon petrol tank after…
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BRUSSELS, June 25. A.A.P.—Seventeen people are known to have been killed and about 30 injured when a fire broke out in the…
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When a fire broke out in a clump of bamboos in Ordnance-street, Newcastle, last night, fire brigades were called by a member of the staff of…
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NEW YORK, Thursday: In one of the most diabolical hold ups on record, a Negro bandit today threw lighting fluid over a ma n and set him alight. John Foley (48), told police he had completed his nightly round of bar…
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Hamilton Fire Brigade was called to a residence at Charlestown last night, to extinguish a fire caused by a short-circuit in the electricity…
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SYDNEY: Rescued from a blazing home in Rockdale early today, a 74-year-old woman had to be forcibly restrained from…
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NEW YORK, June 29. A.A.P.—Rev. Dr. John Lewis, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church, charged with having set fire to his church…
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With the introduction of the State 40-hour week, members of the Fire Brigades' Association are threatening to stop work unless their hours are…
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LONDON, July 3. A.A.P.—A fire destroyed the whole of the top floor of the G.P.O. Central Telegraph Office in London…
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