Bush Fire Put Out in Half Hour
New Lambton brigade was called today to an area of bush alight off Grinsell-st., Kotara. It was extinguished with one…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Small Fire in Shop Window
An electrical fault is believed to have started a small fire in a show window at Scott's Pty. Ltd., Hunter-street, City, on Saturday…
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Proto squads from the Boolaroo Mines Rescue Station were rushed to Waratah colliery this morning after a deputy on the pre-shift inspection had reported the smell of smoke in underground…
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MADRID, Dec. 4. A.A.P.— Four people were killed and 18 injured when a fire broke out yesterday on the Gijon-Madrid express…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—A fire at the Findon factory of Appliances Ltd., the assembly division of Kelvinator (Australia) Ltd.,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Firemen gave demonstrations in Martin Place to-day at the opening of Fire Prevention Week…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday —When one of the two engines of an East-West Airlines Anson caught fire in the air this morning, the pilot, Mr. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Burnt When Bed Catches Fire
LISMORE, Tuesday.—Mrs. E. Hayden, 80, of Bent-street, Casino, was severely burnt when the mattress of her bed caught fire. "…
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SYDNEY: Fire early today reduced to ruin the £30,000 Hollywood Guest House at Wallacia. The guest house Is being renovated. It was not occupied…
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SYDNEY: Three firemen were knocked off their feet by a powerful jet of boiling pitch while fighting the £100,000 cotton fire at the Showground last night. In agonising pain, their…
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Maitland Fire Brigade answered a sprinkler alarm to Burlington Mills at Rutherford yesterday. It was found that the alarm had…
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Firemen scatter for safety as a wall collapses at Taubman's Paint Factory fire at St. Peters, Sydney, today. Smoke and flames spiralled 3000 feet into the air with hundreds of ex plosions which shook houses over a wide area. Thousands of sightseers watched more than 120 firemen fighting the flame.—Picturegram…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fire extensively damaged an estimated 3000 hales of cotton, worth about £100,000, at Sydney Showground…
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A young mother rescued her three children from a burning shed at Redhead this morning, but the eight-months-old baby, Allan Hayes, was severely burned about the head, face and legs…
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SYDNEY: Dense, black, flame-flecked smoke, which spiralled 3000 feet in the air, and hundreds of bomb-like explosions, which shook houses within a mile radius, attracted thousands of sight-seers to…
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Municipal electoral rolls were not correct, Mr. W. Brown, defeated Labour candidate for South Ward, said at the declaration of the…
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Alan Hayes, 8 months, of Belmont-road, Redhead, was burnt on the legs, face, head and feet when molten bituminous material dropped…
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Four fire brigades and Dockyard workmen combined to fight a blaze this afternoon in the engineroom of the freighter…
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NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—It was becoming increasingly difficult to put confidence in the military capacity of General MacArthur's…
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Robert Stewart, of Abel-street, Mayfield West, could only stand and watch his motor-cycle burn after he had…
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