Bunker Fire Checked
HOBART, Wednesday.—Engineers and firemen took risks to-day to extinguish the hunker fire in the freighter Delungra, in Hobart…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 29
Island Oil Fire Deaths Now 8
SINGAPORE, April 19. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The deathroll in the Pulau Samboe Island oil fire has now reached eight, three more…
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SINGAPORE, April 20. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The fourth European—Roy Thompson, whose address is unknown—died yesterday in…
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Two fire brigades were called out last night to a fire on a launch in Newcastle Harbour. The fire was on the 25ft. launch…
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 A.A.P.—A wooden administration building in the University of California cyclotron area, at Berkeley,…
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KRESTOVA (British Columbia), April 25. A.A.P.—Forty-six naked men and women paraded through the cold, windy streets of this…
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FORT WILLIAM (Ontario), Tues. (A.A.P.).—Eight homes, one apartment-house and a timber yard were destroyed yesterday by a fire which burned practically an entire city block. Four other homes and an apartment-house were damaged…
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FORT WILLIAM (Ontario), April 26. A.A.P.—Eight homes, one apartment house and a timber yard were destroyed by a fire which…
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SUVA, Thurs. (O.S.R.).—Delegates to the South Pacific Conference in Suva took time off today from their deliberations to watch an exhibition of fire-walking. Natives from Beqa (pronounced Benga) Island, a few miles…
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SUVA, April 27.—Hundreds of Suva residents, drove of Indian and Fijian men, women and children joined the conference of delegates at Nasinu this afternoon to see the fire-waking ceremony performed by…
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LONDON, April 28. A.A.P.— Three people were burned alive and about 2000 homes wrecked in a fire that devastated the Nepal…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (O.S.R.) —James Ahern, 25, a Shrewsbury, New Jersey fireman, used to get to the scene of…
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LONDON. — Alfred Charles Threakall. aged 21, laborer, of Bisson Rd. Stratford, was remanded at the Guildhall…
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I WITNESSED in Albert Park, Suva, in 1935, the dissolving of handkerchiefs into cinders during a fire-walking ceremony. A…
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SYDNEY: Sixteen men had to run for their lives today when within a few minutes the foundry of P. and M. Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Canterbury-rd., Hurlstone Park, was transformed into a blazing inferno. With a deep roar a large oil…
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The feature of next week's Boy Scout Week in Newcastle will be a camp fire on vacant land in Hunter-street, near Union-street, at…
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TOKYO, May 7. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A fire that broke out before dawn to-day in historic Nagasaki city razed the Nagasaki Prefectural…
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Cook's Hill Fir Brigade was called to a fire in a car in Scott-street on Saturday night. The fire was put out with an extinguisher…
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MONTREAL, May 7. A.A.P.—A fire which raced through Rimouski (Quebec) a St. Lawrence River lumber town, early…
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RIMOUSKI (Quebec Province), Sun. (A.A.P.): At least eight persons have lost their lives in a fire, which was raging unchecked through this industrial town of 11,000 people late tonight…
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