Workmen Burnt In Storeroom Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.—Two workmen suffered burns to-day when a fire started in a petrol and oil storeroom at Mosman…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Lightning Star Big Grass Fire
DARWIN, Monday.—Lightning last week started a huge grass fire which is still blazing through hundreds of square miles of cattle…
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Cook's Hill and Carrington brigades used one hydrant to put out a small fire in the decking of the wharf at No. 9 hydraulic crane,…
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LISMORE, Tuesday.—Fire gutted three business premises at South Lismore early to-day. Damage is estimated at £10,000…
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The Bushfire Committee advised Newcastle City Council last night that a bushfire danger period till March 31 next year had been…
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Newcastle and Hamilton brigades attended a small fire in the verandah roof of the headmaster's house at Dudley Public School…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called to deal with two grass and scrub fires yesterday. They were off Maitland Rd…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called to two grass fires yesterday, one at East Cessnock, and a more extensive one at Nulkaba. Both…
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S Y D N E Y. — Fire swept through the factory of the Hillis Chemical Co., Lane Cove, early today causing damage…
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DUBBO — Extensive bushfires are burning in the Brewarrina and Bourke districts and heavy stock losses are…
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HONGKONG. Oct. 16. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Twenty-six shops and a match storage shed were wiped out to-day in Macao's worst fire…
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Volunteer firemen under Cessnock Fire Brigade worked for hours last night to bring under control the scrub fire over…
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This morning many of the fires which swept through grass and scrub over large areas in the…
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SYDNEY. — The worst fires in the history of North-west N.S.W. have destroyed 200,000 acres of valuable sheep…
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NEW YORK, Oct. 17. A.A.P.—Volleys of rifle fire stopped 1300 rioting convicts last night as they tried to storm the canteen at the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Swift action by wharf labourers and seamen checked a fire in the cotton cargo of the American steamer,…
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Women used bags and bushes to beat out a bushfire threatening homes at Wakefield yesterday. The fire burnt on a three-mile front from…
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Damage estimated at £8000 was caused yesterday when a sawmill at Landsdown, near Taree, was destroyed by fire. Sawn timber valued…
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Firemen and civilians burnt firebreaks around houses threatened by a bushfire north of Belmont yesterday. Bushfires raged in many parts…
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Huge bushfires have caused £30,000 damage in north-west New South Wales…
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