Puppies Survived Factory Fire
SINGAPORE, Aug. 30. A.A.P.—Reuter. —Firemen to-day found six puppies playing in the ruins of a Singapore rubber factory, which…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 28
Fire Will Delay Largs Bay
LONDON Aug. 31. A.A.P. — Australia House has been informed that the recent fire on board the steamer Largs Bay will mean that…
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PERTH: The most graphic writer of sea fiction could hardly have written a more vivid story than the realistic dramatic fortnight of actionpacked days with the ship's company facing "black death" aboard the coal freighter Avismoat in the Indian Ocean…
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SYDNEY.—Girls fled from a factory in Waterloo today when a quantity of coconut fibre caught fire…
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A motor car was severely damaged by fire when it burst into flames in Union St., Newcastle, this afternoon…
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SYDNEY: Detectives are searching for two men who deliberately set fire to a motor car in…
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HONGKONG, Sept. 4. A.A.P.-Reuter.—About 1000 people are dead and 100,000 homeless in Chungking as a result of a fire…
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HONGKONG, Sept. 5. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Two men have been executed for their part in the fire which destroyed the principal…
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The fire in the furniture factory of Dickinson and Son, Broadmeadow-road, Broadmeadow, on August 20 had caused alarm among nearby…
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BATAVIA, Sept. 5. A.A.P.-Reuter. —It is estimated, that five million guilders (nearly £500,000) worth of property was destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Forest Fire Breaks Out in France
PARIS, Sept. 5. A.A.P.—A new forest fire has broken out in France in the Lot-Net-Garonne department, 50 miles south-east of Bordeaux,…
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The Lake Shire Council has agreed to an amended description of the Toronto Fire District submitted by the Shire…
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COLOMBO, Sept. 6. A.A.P.—Criminal Investigation Department officers have been rushed to Trincomalee to investigate a fire which…
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Newcastle police were advised yesterday that a small fire occurred in the Ettalong public school at the week-end…
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In the biggest operation of its kind carried out in N.S.W., fire engines from various parts of the State have combined to restore flooded Kempsey's water supply…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday.âMr. J. Brohn, 25, fitter, risked his life to save a woman, her two-year-old, child, and her savings from a fire…
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MELBOURNE.—Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the pattern shop at the engineering…
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A small fire broke out in Thompson's bakery, Brooks-street, Walls-end, last night. Wallsend brigade put out the blaze with two…
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A wood and iron building used by Messrs. C. Betts and N. Paton as a duco-spraying workshop in Rose-street, Maitland, was…
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Burning fiercely, a fire quickly gutted the duco-spraying garage of Betts and Paton in Rose-st., Maitland, on Saturday night destroying two sedan cars and a utility truck and causing damage estimated at £2000. Noel Paton (28). of…
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