Half-mile To Fire 20 Yards Away
SYDNEY.—Two fire engines travelled about half a mile to reach a fire in a tram about 20 yards from fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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£5000 Furniture Factory Fire
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fire which broke out at the Globe Cabinet factory, Annandale, at 11 o'clock to-night, gutted the…
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PERTH, Thursday.—Helicopters might be used to fight forest fires in Western Australia, a Forestry Department official said to-day…
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Cook's Hill and Merewether brigades attended a fire in the awning of a lock-up shop occupied by Mr. J. O'Neill, of Railway-street,…
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SYDNEY: Twenty guests and 10 members of the staff fled in their night attire from the Wentworth Falls Golf Club and guest house when it was destroyed by fire early today. Two young members of the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Damage caused by the fire which destroyed Wentworth Falls Golf House this morning is estimated at between…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Five new fire patrol vans are to be delivered to the New South Wales Fire Brigade shortly…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Fire broke out to-day among bales of raw cotton salvaged from the £650,000 blaze at a Customs store…
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MELBOURNE: In the third mysterious fire within six weeks on the British freighter Pemba at Port…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mrs. Florence Lawson, 39, of Gale-road, Maroubra, suffered severe burns to [?] arms, legs and body when spilt…
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SYDNEY: Flames fanned by a chilling, 45-mile-an-hour wind turned five acres of waste paper, wood pulp and straw dumps at the Australian Paper Mills, Matraville, into an inferno…
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SYDNEY: An 83-year-old woman who was burned to death in her Dee Why home last night lived the life of a recluse for 20 years. This was discovered today by…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— Although the fire at the Australian Paper Mills. Matraville, was under control to-night, fire officials believe it…
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SYDNEY: Fire broke out again last night in another section of the premises of the Australian Paper…
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SYDNEY: Detectives are searching South Coast towns for a burglar who fired a shot at a man in Main-rd., Austinmer, on Saturday night. The victim, Charles…
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SYDNEY: Four people, overcome by smoke in their blazing home in Manning - rd., Double…
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The rear of a cottage, with contents, in Cleary-street, Hamilton, was damaged by fire on Saturday night. It was occupied by Miss…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police and firemen blame children for starting a fire in Rainbow Public School, Randwick, yesterday afternoon. A…
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MILAN, April 26. A.A.P.—Police in Milan fired into the air and repeatedly drove jeeps into a crowd to break up a communist…
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SINGLETON, Monday.—Mr. Eric George, his wife and nine children ran from their blazing house at "Warromean," Scott's…
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