Old Rail Tunnel On Fire, May Be Blown In
A fire has been burning in one of the old tunnels on the disused Glen rock line. Merewether Beach, for a few days. An attempt is expected to…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 30
£30,000 Fire in Sugar Mill Store Ship Helps Brigades
A fire which broke out yesterday in a store shed of the Colounial sugar Refinery Co. sugar mills at Harwood Island on the Clarenee River, and caused damage estimated at £30,000, is expected to burn for another two to…
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MONTREAL, Aug. 20. A.A.P.—A tire which swept the waterfront at Port Alberni (British Columbia) last night destroyed a Government…
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A proposed alteration to the constitution of the Board of Fire Commissioners, and the financing of fire brigades from consolidated revenue,…
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Books and papers are believed to have been taken from the desks to light a fire on the floor of a classroom at Mayfield East Primary…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday.—The fire which broke out at Harwood sugar mill yesterday is well under control. The fire brigades left this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Orgy Of Blood And Fire In Punjab: Many Dead
NEW DELHI, Wednesday: In an orgy of blood and fire, the peoples of the divided Punjab are settling the problem which the Boundary Commission left unsolved—separation of the Moslems from the Sikhs and Hindus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →UNO Again Gives "Cease Fire" Order In N.E.I.
NEW YORK, Tuesday: For the second time, the United Nations Security Council today called on the Dutch and Indonesians to cease fighting. It approved a motion by Poland…
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MELBOURNE.—Three men in a paint factory and 20 employees of a jam factory operating under the same roof ran for their lives…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A small Fox Terrier, Lassie, warned Joan Morice, 15, who is blind, of a fire…
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Slag wool being conveyed in a railway truck from Hamilton to Broadmeadow marshalling yards burst into flame as the train was standing…
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LONDON, August 28.—"You are going to a country 25 times as big as the British Isles. Keep your head if you get lost because there won't…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Six employees had narrow escapes from death and £10,000 damage was caused in a series of explosions and a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brigades Attend Suspected Fire At Oil Depot
The operation of a foamite fire extiniguishing apparatus automatically summoned fire brigades to the Australian Motorists Petrol Company's…
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The Organiser of the Pageants for the 150th Celebrations (Mr. R. N. Rodgers) was besieged with scores of anxious inquiries…
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In Newcastle's most destructive fire for many years, one of the city's biggest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Graphic Pictures Of Big West End Fire At 4 a.m. Today
GRAPHIC PICTURES taken by a staff photographer at 4 a.m. when the fire was at its fiercest. Flames roared through the building from end to end, smoke billowed hundreds of feet into the air and showers of sparks cascaded over surrounding streets. Weakened by the intense heat, portions of the walls of the building crashed on to the roadway. For nearly two hours the building was one huge sheet of flame, which could…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victor James Tells You The Letter of the Law "Watch Out For Fire"
Dear Mr. Smith,— Would you be liable, you ask, if a fire began on your property and spread to your…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hundreds Watched Disastrous Fire
Some people dressed fully and others wore dressing gowns over pyjamas to watch the fire which destroyed W. E. Bramble and Sons Ltd. furniture store and D. Mitchell and Co. merchandise store early on Saturday morning…
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Firemen had a hopeless fight the fire which gutted W. E. Bramble and Sons Ltd. furniture store and D. Mitchell and Co. store at the corner of Parry and National Park Streets, on Saturday morning. The firemen's job was made more difficult by the danger of explosion and falling walls…
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