Mother, Daughter Escape Blaze
BRISBANE: A 16-year-old girl pushed her mother over a 15ft. awning and slid down a pole in a dramatic escape from…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 28
Watch on Bushfire
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Firemen have been stationed to watch a large bushfire at Brookvale which to-day threatened four weatherboard…
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A fire in Winn's store, Hunter street, yesterday was extinguished without damage to stock. The fire broke out in the ceiling of the…
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BRISBANE. Friday.—A school girl slid down a pole after pushing her mother over a 15ft, awning to escape from a blazing building in…
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COLOMBO, Nov. 4. A.A.P.—Spontaneous combustion of a cinema film caused the fire that wrecked the Trincomalee naval…
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LITHGOW: Detectives Armstrong and Watson, of the C.I.B. Arson Squad, came from Sydney last…
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Wallsend firemen used a foam extinguisher to put out a fire in a motor-cycle in Michael-street, Jesmond, about 11.15 o'clock last…
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JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 6. A.A.P.—One thousand bags of cornflour and bales of cattle feed, valued at £20,000, were destroyed…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Melbourne was without communication to the fire brigade, ambulance and other essential services, and…
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COONAMBLE, Monday.— The Commonwealth Bank Building at Coonamble was extensively damaged by fire late this afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A fire in a furniture storage shed and adjoining upholstery store at Randwick this afternoon destroyed…
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The Bushfire Advisory committee's campaign against bushfires opens on Monday. Newcastle City Council will…
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Firemen clean up the premises of Frede. Ash Pty. Ltd., in Bruce-street, after a paint fire which damaged machinery on the…
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SYDNEY.—The Transport Commissioner (Mr. R. Winsor) today made a presentation to a tramway employee as a reward for his attention to duty in face of danger. The employee, Mr. H. Enright, shift electrician, at great…
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PARIS. Fri. (A.A.P.): Three people died and four were badly burned in a fire which partly destroyed the headquarters of…
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LONDON, Nov. 10. A.A.P.—A fire in a Liverpool dock warehouse which caused £2 million worth of damage was brought under control this morning —18½ hours after it broke out…
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LITHGOW, Friday.—The bravery of a small, band of spectators and railway employees who risked their lives in a railway electrical…
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WELLINGTON, Nov. 13, A.A.P-Reuter. —A mall was burnt to death, and two were severely burnt when trapped in a plantation fire…
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DACCA, Nov. 15 A.A.P.—A fire yesterday completely destroyed the business centre of Dacca, the capital of East Bengal…
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An amendment to the Fire Brigades Act mean that the Board of Fire Commissioners could budget to spend £90,232 in the Newcastle…
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