£30,000 Damage In Factory Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire caused damage estimated at £30,000 at Densified Woods' factory, Cremorne, to-night…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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£70,000 Loss In Two Sydney Fires
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Damage estimated at more than £70,000 was caused by two fires in Sydney to-day…
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REPORTS of serious bushfires from the Lake Macquarie area and a number of points in N.S.W. warn us of the dangers which lie ahead in the next few months…
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 17. A.A.P.—An exploding skyrocket set fire to a crowded cabaret yesterday and 14 persons were burnt or trampled to death. Ninety others were injured…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Fire to-night destroyed a radio cabinet factory at Campsie. Damage is estimated at more than £5000…
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All available volunteer firemen were called to help the Cessnock Fire Brigade control two scrub fires today…
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Lush seasons, followed by the warm, dry spell, have made the grass and bush fire danger acute. Brigades put out seven grass…
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COLESVILLE (Maryland), Tues. (A.A.).—Three elderly women were burned to death today and more than a score…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man to-day saved the life of a woman, whose clothes were on fire, by beating out the flames with his hands…
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Mustang fighter-bombers will use rockets, bombs and napalm fire bombs in a fire power exhibition at Williamtown R.A.A.F. station on…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The area from Port Stephens to Mittagong to-day was gazetted a bushfire danger area by the Chief Secretary…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade had to clear a strip around an area of burning grass and scrub off Chapman St., Cessnock,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Two men broke into a house in Camden-street, Newtown, last night and saved Mrs. Audrey Waters, 50, from…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire this afternoon destroyed a three-storied flour mill at Boggabri, causing £150,000 damage…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 23. A.A.P.—Senator Taft said in Fargo, North Dakota, last night that the Democratic administration in Washington…
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DARWIN, Tuesday.—Australian troops in Korea felt there were good reasons for the cease-fire negotiations in Korea to continue…
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Singapore police to-day detained a Chinese for questioning after a fire in a rubber factory…
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Cook's Hill and Tighe's Hill brigades attended a small fire at the Commonwealth Industrial Gases works, Port Waratah, yesterday. A…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Civil Aviation Department should consider insisting on the installation on all planes of an Australian…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An elderly woman was seriously burnt when [?]dress caught fire while she was burning rubbish in the back yard…
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