Wanted To See Fire; So Started One
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.—Two young airmen were to-day committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of arson…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 30
Forest Fire Raging in Alaska
ANCHORAGE (Alaska), July 15. A.A.P.—A forest fire on Kenai Peninsula was advancing last night on a 70-mile front. The flames,…
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Employees at Dean's plaster works in Christo Road, Georgetown, kept a fire in check with a garden hose today while Newcastle, Hamilton and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When a 44-gallon drum of methylated spirit exploded and set fire to a workshop to-night two young workmen…
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Brigades were called to three fires in an hour yesterday morning. In each case the damage was slight. Shortly after 10 a.m., Hamilton and…
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American soldiers use an improved fire-screen to combat flames sweeping a U.S. quartermaster petroleum dump at Inchon, Korea, The fire raged four hours before it was controlled…
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Cook's Hill and Hamilton Fire Brigades were called yesterday to a fire in a shed in Bennett-street, Hamilton…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A woman was overcome by fumes when a fire broke out at the rear of a sportland penny arcade in George-street to-night…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—While a woman was burning rubbish in the backyard of her home earl to-day, blazing papers blown by the wind…
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SYDNEY: A fire which gutted a Camperdown factory last night is believed to have been started by burglars who first ransacked the building. The factory is Merlin Plated…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two outbreaks of fire in Sydney early this morning were quickly extinguished. A weatherboard factory in…
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MURRUKUNDI, Monday.— Called out at 4 a.m. to-day Murrurundi Fire Brigade found the signal box at Pengela railway station, four miles…
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Fire brigades saved several motor vehicles and the building when fire broke out in a garage owned by David Cohen and Co., Ltd in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A fireman who entered a blazing garage at Rose Bay early this morning saved a motorcar from destruction…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Philip Gordon McKenzie, 40, gardener, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment to-day when convicted of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gunmen In Jeep Fire On Sentries In Burmese Capital
RANGOON, Wednesday: Three men in a jeep opened fire on armed sentries yesterday at the gate of the Jubilee Hall, Rangoon, where the remains of Burmese leaders murdered last Saturday are lying, in State…
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Cook's Hill and Hamilton brigades attended burning rubbish and fencing at the rear of premises occupied by Mr. William Gardiner, Church-street…
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A grass fire on a vacant allotment in Broadmeadow-road, Broadmeadow, was beaten out by Hamilton Fire Brigade yesterday morning…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A fireman was struck by a live wire and thrown on to a heap of blazing furniture at Newtown to-night…
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Belmont brigade attended a fire in the scrub off Pacific Highway, Pelican yesterday afternoon. The fire was put out with one hydrant…
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