Kahibah Fire
Firemen from Charlestown and Hamilton Brigades put out a fire, which caused about £0 damage, in a house in Beath-crescent, Kahlbah,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Kansas City Oil Fire Spreads
NEW YORK, July 16. A.A.P.—The Kansas City floods are receding, but the explosion of another oil tank has caused more fire destruction in the city…
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LISMORE, Monday. — Detectives investigating the death of a young married couple who were burnt to death in their cottage at…
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Cloth worth £1000 was damaged in a fire at the Super Fit clothing factory, Woy Woy, last night. The fire was on the ground floor…
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KANSAS CITY, Tues. (A.A.P.).—The five-day-old fire in the flooded city flared again…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Three men were slightly injured when a fire engine and three trucks were involved in a smash at Parramatta…
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TOKYO, July 18. A.A.P. Reuter.—The Communists to-day reported that the cease-fire talks at Kaesong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£2000 Fire At Maitland
Damage in the vicinity of £2000 was caused at Maitland today when a fire broke out in a tyre retreading factory off…
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SYDNEY.—Trapped in their blazing flat at Herne Bay housing settlement today, a young married couple and their three…
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Fire brigades attended four grass fires yesterday. New Lambton Brigade used a hydrant to put out a grass fire off…
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The Advanx Tyre Repair Co. lost a considerable stock of rubber in a fire at Maitland on Saturday morning…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday (A.A.P.).—At least seven persons died in a fire which destroyed a block of flats here today…
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A FIRE which damaged portion of a large brick and weatherboard cottage at Walka Water Works…
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SINGLETON Thursday.—More than 12,000 tons of low-grade coal has been destroyed by a fire at Newdell open-cut mine, near…
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Fat in an electric stove caught fire and set the kitchen curtains alight at the home of Mrs. F. Dymock, in First-avenue,…
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. A.A.P.—Police reported that Kenneth Skinner, 17, a high school pupil, confessed that he had started…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A public inquiry into the firing of a 90,000-ton stack of coal at Ravensworth between Singleton and…
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Cook's Hill Fire Brigade, under Station Officer Thompson, last night attended a small fire in a building at the rear of Watt-street Mental…
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A decision by Newcastle City Council last night to send five delegates to a local government conference in Lismore on October 3, 4 and 5 was criticised by Ald. Cane…
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A semi-trailer loaded with 44-gallon drums of oil and kerosene caught fire at Greta early yesterday. The trailer was destroyed…
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