Rain Starts Fire
HOBART: It rained so hard at Beaconsfield (Tas.) yesterday that the water started a fire. It seeped into bags of lime…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 30
Three Bush Fires In 72 Minutes
New Lambton fire brigade attended three bush and grass fires between 11.30 a.m. and 12.42 p.m. yesterday. Hydrants were used to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Sydney fire brigades to-day had their busiest day since last summer. They attended to more than 50 outbreaks…
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When fire stink was found coming from a seal in an area in the north tunnel at Neath mine yesterday, the miners' Check Inspector…
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BERLIN, Fri. (A.A.P.) : Russian tommy-gunners and German police fired into a mass demonstration here yesterday after a Russian flag had been torn down on the Soviet sector…
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Three fire brigades (from Newcastle, Tighe's Hill and Waratah) were called this morning to a fire in the…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Police are seeking Woodrow Humpers, on a charge laid by his girl friend…
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NARRANDERA, Sunday.—When a motor-train, carrying 100 passengers, caught fire in a cutting near Narrandera this afternoon, one…
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Three brigades attended a fire in the roof of the galvanising plant at Lysaght's Ltd. on Saturday morning. The roof was slightly damaged…
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AMSTERDAM, Sept. 12. A.A.P.—Millions of pounds of butter and meat and five million eggs were destroyed in cold storage buildings on…
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Brigades were called to two small fires yesterday. One was a paper basket in Hunter-street, near Wolfe-street; the other a grass fire off…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Frederick Wilkes, 74, of Maroubra, was fatally burnt when he fell into burning grass in the backyard of his…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sept. 15. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Two of seven men pleaded "Guilty" in the Magistrate's Court to-day to having wilfully set…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fire, believed to have started from a large oven, severely damaged the factory of K-9 Biscuits and Animal…
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A truck load of lime was destroyed when rain leaked through the covering and caused the lime to overheat…
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Tram traffic from the city was held up for 20 minutes when fire broke out in a Merewether-bound tram in Hunter-street at 5.30 p.m…
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LONDON, Sept. 17. A.A.P.—The Nizam of Hyderabad has ordered a cease fire and has accepted the resignation of his Cabinet…
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SYDNEY.—From the blazing top floor of a Pitt St. building today three women and a man climbed over the roof top, scaled…
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THE MOST comfortable place on a wet, rainy, windy night is by the fire. While the wind howls around the house and whirls…
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On the motion of Ald. McDougall, Greater Newcastle Health Committee decided to ask the Council Building Inspector (Mr. Horton)…
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