Hotel Fire Destroys 10 Rooms
KATOOMBA, Friday.—A fire to-night destroyed 10 rooms in the staff quarters of the Hydro-Majestic Hotel,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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11 Feared Dead In Ship Fire
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. A.A.P.—Little hope is held that eight passengers and three members of the crew missing…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Wireless patrol police this evening fired seven shots at a 23-year-old migrant in a…
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TIJUANA (Mexico), Sunday (A.A.P.)—Fire turned a gay Christmas party for poor children onto a screaming death-trap in…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A classroom was destroyed by fire, cupboards were wrecked, and sporting material was…
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CINCINNATI, Dec. 25. A.A.P.—Eight people were killed and nine injured in a fire that broke out in a negro…
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Five motor vans and about 10 horse-drawn vehicles were damaged by a fire in the delivery section of the Newcastle…
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HOBART, Wednesday.—Fire to-day destroyed a partly-built luxury hotel at Old Beach, on the Derwent River, about five…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Drinkers fled from a first floor lounge when fire broke out in the University Hotel,…
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 26. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A British soldier is reported to have fired bursts from his Sten gun over…
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Belmont Brigade had the sole bushfire call this afternoon. A large area of grass and scrub along the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Police and firefighters risked their lives to release two seriously-injured people from…
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People have always been careless with cigarettes and picnic fires. We have not had extremely…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade has had a quiet time over the Christmas holidays. It had only one call to a fire…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The ban on the lighting of fires in the open had been extended till next Wednesday, January…
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MELBOURNE.—In Franklin St., in the heart of Melbourne, last night, a father carried his two…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Three people were injured early to-day while escaping from a fire which swept the…
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A fire over a large area of grass scrub behind Neath School today spread to the chitter at Neath…
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ALBURY, Sunday.—A bushfire caused £15,000 to nine properties at Walla on Friday night. Oaten and…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Five men were alleged to have started a bushfire near Windsor to-day…
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