Yacht Club Fire
Initiative by the caretaker of the Royal Motor Yacht Club, Toronto, and prompt action by Toronto and Teralba Fire Brigades, saved the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 29
Forest Fire Watch Tower
They will spot fires in the 73,000-acre forest reserve which produces 14 to 15 million feet of logs each year and maintains…
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A new 60ft. lookout tower at Wattagan will help solve the problem of detection of fires in the Newcastle National Forest next summer. State foresters will use the…
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Mrs. Elizabeth Boadle, 67, of Dawson-street, Cook's Hill, suffered burns to the face, hands and arms yesterday when a fire under a…
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MELBOURNE. —Thousands of pounds worth of bagged sugar were burnt when fire destroyed part of Marchants…
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Picnickers in the countryside near Newcastle must not boil billies nor cook meals over fires any nearer than 15 feet, from logs…
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Members of the Bushfire Advisory Committee who attended a display of fire-fighting and inspected the Quinlan fire-tower on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Photographer's Stock Damaged In Fire
Fire damaged stock valued at £200 in a photographer's shop, occupied by John Thomas Newton, Victory-parade, Toronto, on…
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LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): A fire in the new Orient liner Oronsay was brought under control last night after 24 hours' hard work by firemen using appliances from more than 20 brigades…
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LONDON, October 29. A.A.P.—Dockyard workers this morning settled the fire-damaged 28,200-ton Orient liner Oronsay on the bottom…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Club On Top Floor
Early to-day brigades were trying to put out a fire which gutted the Byccknn Don Russian Club on the top floor of Cropley Chambers,…
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SYDNEY. — After a dance had been held on the premises the Russian Club in George- st., Haymarket, was gutted by…
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Newcastle Rugby League's method of distributing funds was wrong, the President of Cessnock Club (Mr. W. A. Johns) said last night…
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Overheating caused a small fire in chemical bins at the Newcastle Chemical Company's works, Mayfield, last night. Damage to stock…
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LONDON, October 30. A.A.P.—A security blanket has been thrown over the Vickers, Armstrong dockyard at Barrow-in-Furness, where…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EDITORIAL: It is Time To Become "Fire-Conscious"
WHILE this country suffers visitations of high temperatures accompanied by fierce winds and combined with the public enemy with the match, bushfires will always remain a menace…
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When a leak developed in an acetylene cylinder of an oxywelding plant at Ebbeck Bros.' garage at East Maitland today…
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A fire which partly destroyed a small joinery factory in Mill-st., East Maitland, on Aug. 21, appeared to have been…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—One man was critically burnt and another severely when a loaded brewery waggon caught fire and…
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Belmont brigade attended a fire in grass and bushland at Pelican yesterday. The fire broke out about 2.15 p.m., and was not subdued…
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