Brigades Attend Two Small Fires
Brigades attended two small fires in the district yesterday. Waratah and Tighe's Hill went to a burning shed at the rear of Mr. R. Hartup's…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 28
Racehorse Killed in Fire
BALLARAT, Friday.—The race-hourse Miss Pamelus was killed by a fire which destroyed a section of Mr. E. W. Craig's Shady Acres…
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"I believe the evidence of the parents that they had not been smoking after they returned home about 11 p.m., and that when the…
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SYDNEY: Shortly after 2 a.m. today, Mrs. N. M. Formes, of Sublime Point-rd., Leura, heard her baby Donald…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A fire which started in a cover fan in the Lyric Theatre during a session last night was put out with chemical…
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KATOOMBA, Monday.—A man, his wife and their five children escaped in their night attire from a blazing nine-room cottage in…
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LONDON.—A one-woman fire alarm system will save Suffolk ratepayers £1785 a year. Mrs. Marjoram, Stowmarket…
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ADELAIDE: Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the main science laboratories at…
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SYDNEY:—The Pier Hotel at Byron Bay was Rutted by fire late yesterday before the fire brigade arrived…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said to-night that soon ne would submit to Cabinet legislation to…
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SYDNEY: A spectacular blaze early today burnt the control building at Schofields…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An electrical fault is believed to have caused the fire at the Schofields R.A.A.F. station this morning,…
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SINGAPORE, March 30. A.A.P.- Reuter.—A British Overseas Airways flying-boat, carrying 13 passengers from Hongkong to…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.—A youth was charged to-day with arson after a fire in the E.S. and A. Bank's premises last night…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.— More than £40,000 damage was caused by a spectacular fire which early to-night gutted a body building…
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Saitama (Japan) prefectural officials are overjoyed at "the enlightened and benevolent democracy" of American military government…
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A shed at the rear of a house in Darvall-street, Carrington, was badly damaged by fire and water last night. The fire was extinguished…
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TEL AVIV, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Israel's armistice, with Transjordan was "political" and not in Palestine's favor, the Israel…
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Plans for a fire escape in the boys' department of Hamilton Public School are being prepared. The Minister of Education (Mr…
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NEW YORK, April 5. A.A.P.—From 56 to 58 patients were burned to death, including mothers and babies, when a fire destroyed the St. Anthony Hospital at Effingham (Illinois)…
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