Wallsend Grass Fires
Wallsend Fire Brigade was called to two grass fires yesterday. One at midday at Birmingham Gardens was extinguished with one hydrant…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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414 Fires Last Year
Brigades in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie districts attended 414 fires in 1947. There were 40 accidental or needless false alarms…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Chief Officer of the New South Wales Fire Brigade (Mr. W. H. Beare) retired to-day after 47 years'…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Wednesday. —An hour after the carnival, at which a stand collapsed and 32 people were injured, closed last…
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LONDON, Jan. 1.—A 90-minute fire reduced St. Alban's. Streatham Park, one of South London's most beautiful churches, to a brick shell…
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A small fire in the decking of the Shell Grit Wharf, Carrington, yesterday, was put out by Cook's Hill and Carrington Brigades with one…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Two women, with infants in their arms, groped their way down a smokefilled staircase when fire broke out…
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In the last 12 months 116 calls were received in the Maitland Fire District. Of these, 38 were received in…
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WEST WYALONG. — The body of a man, believed to be the 72-year-old caretaker, was found in the embers of a fire…
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HONGKONG, Jan. 4.—A report from Macao says an explosion on board the motor-launch Wing set fire to and gutted the motor-launch…
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WEST WYALONG, Sunday.—Arson squad detectives from the C.I.B. conducted investigations to-day into the fire which gutted West…
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Part of the electrical system of a tram car short-circuited and caught fire near Tighe's Hill fire station, yesterday. Firemen put the…
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Cook's Hill Fire Bridgade attended a small fire in the galley of the steamer Kekerangu at Lee Wharf yesterday. The fire was put out…
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 8. A.A.P.—Film producer Harry Sherman said to-day he would shoot a picture, "The Valley of Fire," in Australia…
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BRISBANE: Grasping her two young grandchildren, Mrs. Martha Ovens escaped from her blazing home at Paddington…
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Wallsend Fire Brigade was called out by a false alarm yesterday to the new Methodist Church at Birmingham Gardens…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday. - Nearly 1000 men fought a bushfire for six hours yesterday over an eight mile front near Burra, 75 miles north of…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Three motor-trucks were destroyed when a £20,000 fire gutted a second-hand case dealer's premises at Pyrmont…
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WEST WYALONG: Lloyd Fleming, laborer, West Wyalong, appeared before Messrs. L. C. Luff and L. J. McCann, Justices of the Peace, today, charged with having on Jan. 3 murdered Hugh…
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SYDNEY: A fire at Baan Baa village at six o'clock this morning destroyed a grocery and…
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