Driver's Narrow Escape From Fire
LONDON.—A lorry carrying gas cylinders and a tank of paint caught fire in Huntingdon High St. recently…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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No Petrol To Fight Fires
NEW YORK, Wed. (O.S.R.)—Twice recently the Highlands (New Jersey) Fire Brigade has not been able to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed Proud Bros. Pty. Ltd. moulders'…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A fire which destroyed a block of shops in the main street of Proserpine, 670 miles north of…
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SPONTANEOUS combustion has lost millions of tons of coal in Cessnock district. Each year large sections of mines…
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LONDON, October 20. A.A.P.—Eight persons were trapped and hung from windows on the upper floor calling for help in…
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Grass fires broke out this afternoon at Pelican, Black-smiths and Wallsend, but were extinguished before any…
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A committee has appealed for funds to help a young married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whitton, to establish a home, towards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Old Fire-fighting Gear in Action
Fire-fighting as it used to be This ancient steam-pump was manhandled into action by suitably bewhiskered firemen during…
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Investigations by the Bushfires Advisory Committee often revealed freak causes for fires, a staff member, Mr. R. J. Pile, said yesterday. Mr. Pile is in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Egyptians Fire On Allied Planes
LONDON, Oct. 24. A.A.P.—A British Tudor passenger airliner, and two American Skymasters were fired on by Egyptian anti-aircraft…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire to-night completely destroyed a furniture factory at Leichhardt. Damage is estimated at £10,000…
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A fire which broke out in Guest's auction room, Vincentst., Cessnock, early this morning, was soon put out by…
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BELGRADE, Oct. 30. A.A.P.—Hungarian frontier guards fired into Yugoslav territory for six hours on Friday in the biggest border incident between the two countries so far…
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Two tents and their contents in Goffett Park Toronto, owned and occupied by Oliver Hilton Edwards and his family, were destroyed by…
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Mary Watts, 16, of Speers-street. Speers Point, suffered burns to the right arm, shoulder and chest yesterday when her clothing caught…
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Two small scrub and grass fires were attended by Newcastle brigades yesterday. The fires did no damage Wallsend Brigade went to a grass…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Eric Arthur Stanton, 45, at Campbelltown Quarter Sessions to-day, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2. A.A.P.—Six people were killed and 11 over come by a fire in a tenement house in Cincinnati…
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SYDNEY.—A little black pom, cringing under a bath tub, lived through an inferno of flame that swept through the back…
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