Fire At Steel Works
Three fire brigades were called to a fire which broke out in a coal bin at B.H.P. Steel Works late on Saturday…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
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Migrants Lose Home In Fire
SYDNEY: While a young Englishwoman was picnicking with her three young children at Manly today, her Bankstown home and all its contents were destroyed by fire…
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LONDON: Four men died when an oil tank blew up in the power station switch control house where they were working. Flaming oil set the building blazing fiercely and the…
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NORFOLK (Virginia), Wed. (A.A.P.): A fire swept through the crew's quarters of the 8000-ton…
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SYDNEY: Petrol leaking from the Norwegian tanker Ringfell caused a brief but spectacular fire which threatened the tanker, two corvettes, three small coasters, shipyards,…
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An inspection by mine officials today revealed that fire damage to West Wallsend Extended colliery at Kill ing worth is not as serious as originally estimated. Production at the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Battle With Mine Fire 80 Mineworkers Make Escape As Shaft Burns
All 80 men were quickly hauled to the surface at West Wallsend Extended Colliery, Killingworth, yesterday afternoon when fire broke out in the upeast air shaft…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Petrol leaking from a Norwegian tanker to-day caused a fire half a mile along the Balmain…
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COLUMBUS (Ohio), Sept. 4. A.A.P.—A narcotics addict set fire to his padded cell, and died in the flames while guards…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 4. A.A.P.—Fire swept through the crew's quarters of the 8000-ton Norwegian freighter,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Eisenhower Heavy Fire in Politics "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Sept. 4. — A new Eisenhower, a roaring, blustering politician, is raging through the traditionally Democratic South like the tornadoes which also are…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Kelly) to-day urged householders and landowners to cooperate in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A girl was severely burnt to-day while playing with a toy motorboat at Manly Beach…
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SYDNEY.—A fire underground has closed the Ivanhoe mine near Lithgow…
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Newcastle Surf Club's annual report criticised the laxity of some club members in using the club as a "convenient…
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Melbourne—Five New Australian children, aged from 7 months to 7 years, were burned to death in a fire at the hospital at Somers Migrant Camp early today…
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SYDNEY. — A woman pulled a burning coat from a man who was trying to put out a fire in a house in…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Five young migrants perished in a fire which gutted huts at Somers migrant camp hospital early to-day…
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Glendale Progress Association will ask Lake Macquarie Shire Council to remove underbrush from around Glendale…
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SYDNEY: A New Australian woman living near by ran into a blazing candle factory at…
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