Fire Victims Still Serious
ADELAIDE: The condition of two of the five victims of the Covent Garden cafe blaze in Royal Adelaide Hospital…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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Fire at Cessnock Bowling Club
Cessnock Fire Brigade was called out this morning to a fire in one of the rooms of thee Cessnock Bowling Club House…
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Newcastle and suburban fire brigades yesterday fought fires for the third successive day. Fires which were under control on Thursday…
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ADELAIDE.—There has been no improvement overnight in the conditions of Pamela Daebler (17) and Clara O'Flaherty…
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BRISANE.—A 30cwt. truck carrying mail between Cullamulla and Bollon yesterday was destroyed by fire, the…
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Firemen from Cook's Hill Brigade examine damage done by fire in a Hunter-street typewriter repair shop last night. The fire started…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Oct. 31. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The three-storied threequarter acre steel framed brick wool store of Levin and Company at…
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Newcastle district brigades answered 70 calls to bush and grass fires last week. It was the highest number of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Damage estimated at more than £3000 was caused by a fire which destroyed part of a cordial factory in…
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A float taking horses from Sydney to Gosford races caught fire on the Pacific Highway about two miles from the course yesterday…
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PARIS, Nov. 2. A.A.P.—A barrier of flame met troops and police as they attempted to clear strikers from one mine on the northern coalfield to-day…
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For more than an hour early this morning firemen from Cook's Hill, Hamilton and Tighe's Hill fire brigades fought a fire in a garage at…
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Using three hydrants, Belmont brigade fought a grass and bush fire at North Belmont for more than four hours yesterday…
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LONDON, Nov. 3. A.A.P.—The steamer Fort Vercheres (7128 tons), travelling from Hull to Melbourne, with a cargo of coal, has cabled…
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A galvanised iron shed and its contents, in Holland-street, Wickham, were severely damaged by fire yesterday afternoon…
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Hamilton Parents and Citizens' Association decided to ask the Department of Education to provide a fire escape for the boys'…
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A plate-glass window was broken and a shelf damaged in a small fire at the Havana Cafe, Thorn and Hunter Streets, last night…
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Only two rings, a small amount of money and some clothing were saved from a fire which practically destroyed a five-roomed…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Drums of paint and oil exploded in a fire which swept through part of a factory at Mascot to-night. Two trucks…
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GOSFORD, Thursday.—When a bushfire came down from the hills at Point Clare to-night many homes were threatened…
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