Fire Damage In N.S.W. £1M. Year
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire damage cost £1 million a year in New South Wales, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Matthews) said when he…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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£2M. Dock Fire At Liverpool
Experts from the Home Office are investigating the causes of this fire at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool. This aerial view…
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SYDNEY.—There are grave indications of a serious bushfire hazard later this summer, according to the Chief…
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Mr. Cowle, of Arcadia-Vale, has asked the Progress Association for a supply of bushfire fighting equipment for Arcadia-Vale Fire…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The R.A.A.F. will operate air reconnaisance and patrol during the bushfire period this summer…
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Plans and specifications, for a fire escape at the boy's department of the Hamilton School are to be given special…
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DOCK BLAZE. Nearly £1 million worth of exports for Australia were lost when a three-storey warehouse at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, caught fire. Two hundred firemen, with two boats and 35 pumps fought unsuccessfully to quell the…
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LONDON: Two seven-year-old boys who have admitted to the police that they started a fire which caused several…
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Wallsend brigade attended burning grass off Newcastle-road, Wallsend, last night. Some unused pit timber was damaged. A hydrant…
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AUCKLAND, Nov. 20. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Fire destroyed the sawmill at Atiamuri, 25 miles from Taupo, owned by New Zealand…
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LONDON, Nov. 22. A.A.P.—A fireman, Frank Beddard, on duty this morning, turned out the fire brigade in response to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Chief Secretary (Mr. Matthews) to day announced the winners of the bush fire section of the police…
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This new suit, developed for the U.S. Air Force, keeps firemen cool in a blaze, is made of 18 layers of various glass fibres and…
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AMMAN, Nov. 24. A.A.P.—A fire broke out last night in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is built over what is…
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SYDNEY: A one - armed former Dutch Royal Marine sergeant-major fought a fire which threatened the…
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BERLIN, Nov. 28. A.A.P.—Four hundred miners were killed in a fire in the Soviet zone uranium mines at Johunn…
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SYDNEY: A fire destroyed the Royal Hotel and Post Office residence at Candelo, 14 miles from Bega, late last night. Telephone communication with the town has been cut off…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In Brief £lm. Fire Of Radio, Television Sets
Radio and television sets for export, valued at nearly £1,000,000, were damaged or destroyed by a fire at Cambridge yesterday. IT'S ALL MUMBO-JUMBO…
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BEGA, Thursday.—Trapped above a blazing staircase, a man jumped 15 feet to safety when the Royal Hotel, Candelo, 145 miles…
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MELBOURNE.—A 92-year-old man. Terence James Liddy, died in a fire which destroyed his five-room weatherboard…
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