Matches Set Boy's Clothes On Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Geoffrey Cantwell, 5, set himself on fire with a box of matches while playing in his parents' home in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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Police Probe Wool Area Fires
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Police are investigating six fires in woolsheds and hayricks in the past six weeks in Goondiwindi district in…
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HONGKONG, Sept. 22. A.A.P.-Reuter.—At least 25 are dead and 56 were admitted to hospital as the result of a…
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An electric motor was damaged in a fire in the tar-bleaching furnace at the Commonwealth Steel Company's works, Waratah, last…
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HONGKONG, Sept, 22. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Firemen to-day carried 115 charred and unrecognisable bodies from the upper floors of the tenement under which yesterday's disastrous fire started…
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SYDNEY.—An estimated annual use of 25,000 gallons of petrol by seven Metropolitan night five patrol cars was a…
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A small group of mines are working as shiftmen to complete the seals in the area at Whitburn colliery where heating was found. Rails…
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LITHGOW, Friday.—One of several rifle bullets unwittingly thrown into a kitchen fire to-day exploded and struck a woman in the leg…
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SYDNEY: Crawling through a maze of old furniture, choking with smoke and menaced by flames, two men risked their lives early today at Ascot in a gallant but unsuccessful attempt to save an elderly, wealthy and eccentric woman from burning to death…
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BRISBANE: While fires raged along the Queensland coastline north from Maryborough during the week-end,…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—[?] is intensifying bushfire [?] burning fiercely in se[?] between Cairns and Gla[?]…
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 27. A.A.P.—Ninety-three of the 100 persons on board are reported to have died when fire destroyed the…
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BECAUSE of exceptional growth after recent rains, the Bushfires Advisory Committee believes that the bushfire menace, this summer will be as serious as in 1939, when large areas…
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Unless Greater Newcastle Council agreed to an increase in the rating limit, as provided by the Fire Brigades Act, the Board of…
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Serious bushfires were possible this season, unless particular care was taken with the use of fire, fire brigade officers said yesterday…
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PARIS, Sept. 29. A.A.P.—Nearly two square miles of buildings were damaged and 500 tons of chemical products destroyed in a fire at a…
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Early this morning Cook; Hill and Tighe's Hill fire brigades received a call to a house in Robert St., Islington…
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A fire broke out in the rear bedroom of a house occupied by Mrs. Amelia Miller, Robert-street, Wickham, at 3.30 a.m. on…
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Mr. L. G. Bell of Warner's Bay, who has offered the Board of Fire Commissioners a fire float for use at Lake…
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—The White House, home of United States Presidents, is "the worst fire trap in America," experts say…
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