Grass Fires in Suburbs
New Lambton Fire Brigade yesterday extinguished two grass fires in Croudace-street and Ridgeway-road. A grass fire, which broke out near…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Hose Reel for Wangi Fire Brigade
Captain W. Pryce, of Wangi Bush Fire Brigade, said arrangements were completed to provide the brigade with a hove reel. The property of the New…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—When a sharp electrical storm passed over Canberra and surrounding districts to-day lightning struck a number of…
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HONGKONG, Feb. 4. A.A.P.—Shortly before the 2000-ton river steamer Saigon was scheduled to leave for Canton a fire broke out…
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PERTH, Wednesday.—A man who is alleged to have struck a match and set alight the petrol-soaked clothes of another man was committed for…
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LONDON, Feb. 6. A.A.P.—The President of the Permanent Vietnamese Delegation in Paris issued a communique in which the…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A youth who "did not feel like drowning" a cat, which had been worrying his pet canary and, pigeons, sprinkled…
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MELBOURNE: Suggestions that the R.A.A.F. was ready to attack large-scale bush fires with anti-fire bombs was premature, R.A.A.F. headquarters announced. Use of bombs for firefighting was…
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LONDON, Feb. 9. A.A.P.—More than 50 persons, including four British soldiers, are feared to have lost their lives in a big fire last night…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Damage estimated at £4000 was caused by a fire which gutted an old stone building at Bundanoon yesterday morning…
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WASHINGTON, Feb 12. A.A.P.—Mr. William Burden, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, in a statement read to the committee…
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BATAVIA, Feb. 12. A.A.P.—The Republican Prime Minister (Mr. Sjahrir) announced that the Indonesian Republican Government would…
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When an electric stove overheated yesterday afternoon, burning fat slightly damaged a kitchen wall in the Dumaresq-street home of Mr…
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BOGOTA (Columbia), Feb. 17. A.A.P.—A forest fire caused by the explosion of the Avianca Airline's DC.4 airliner…
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MELBOURNE: Inquiries are being made by the Inspector General of Penal Establishments (Mr. Akeroyd) into two reports of recent fires at Pentridge Gaol…
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Fire started in a stack of logs off Fitzroy-street, Carrington, last night. Carrington brigade used a motor pump to put the fire out. There…
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The Boy Scouts' Association asked Greater Newcastle Finance Committee last night for the use of the old Newcastle East fire station…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—When a cooper's factory caught fire at Mascot this afternoon an employee climbed on to the burning…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Fire caused £3000 damage in a garage at Maroubra Junction and more than £1000 damage in a Chippendale biscuit…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A demonstration of the use of radio equipment in bush fire fighting, to be held at Grenfell on Saturday, March 1, has…
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