Fire At Abadan Refinery
BASRA (Irak), Monday (A.A.P.).—Fires broke out in Abadan refinery last week when Persians tried…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Burns From Launch Fire Fatal
George Pearson, 26, of Karuah died in Royal Newcastle Hospital last night from burns he received when petrol caught alight on his…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 4. A.A.P.—Four brothers, aged from one month to four years, were burnt to death yesterday when a kerosene…
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A grass fire near Pacific Colliery at Teralba set alight to some of the timber structure over an old…
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LONDON.—Smoking materials, matches, cigarette ends, etc., were responsible for more than 400 fires a…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners will be asked in Newcastle tomorrow night to reopen the Adamstown…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Fire damaged tractor tyres and electricity generating sets on a Glebe Island wharf to-night…
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A New Australian, Franco Monego, escaped with only the clothing he was wearing from a room on fire at the rear of a small block of flats in Steel-st., Hamilton, today. The room and a laundry…
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LONDON: A thin, fair-haired 10-year-old boy admitted setting fire to a Wolverhampton tyre…
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Firemen smashed a window and disconnected electric power before they smothered with sand a fire in Main-road, Warner's Bay, last…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Bushfire Committee would investigate and report on the causes of bush and other fires on the North Coast…
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District fire brigades raced to many points over a wide area today as bushfires blazed with the temperature mounting into the nineties. A heavy smoke pall hung over the city and suburbs and from an extensive fire at Warner's Bay dense smoke drifted out…
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Disastrous bushfires are sweeping through valuable grazing properties in the Walgett, Coonamble and Carinda districts and already 20,000 acres have…
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Firemen from Hamilton, Lambton and New Lambton Brigades, assisted by volunteers, had an eight-hour fight to gain control of an extensive bushfire which menaced several homes in Croudace-st., New Lambton, yesterday afternoon and last night. This morning there was a fresh outbreak in the area and New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press Fire Bug Suspected
SYDNEY: The Minister for Conservation (Mr Weir) said today Forestry Commission officials suspect that fires which have occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Extensive Fires Sweep North 15 Square Miles Burnt At Weston
Extensive fires swept Northern New South Wales yesterday. Between 15 and 20 square miles of bushland was burnt near Weston…
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Members of the Board of Fire Commissioners told Aid. Alder (representing Newcastle City Council) last night that they could not agree to reopen Adamstown Fire Station. In the picture are (1. to r.)…
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Police and fire brigade officers in Newcastle are concerned because many motor vehicle drivers do not allow free access to engines going…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners could not agree to the reopening of the Adamstown fire station, the President of the board…
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Mobility was the crux of future firefighting policy, the President of the Board of Fire Commissioners (Mr. T. J. Smith) said in Newcastle last night. Mr. Smith said that in Sydney…
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