Stockton Fire Risk: Low Water Pressure
Lack of water pressure at Stockton constituted a grave fire hazard in the event of a serious outbreak, the Captain of the Stockton Fire Brigade (Mr. F. Walden) said…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
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Five Children Die In Fire
TYRONE (Pennsylvania), Thurs. (A.A.P.)—Four brothers and their sister died today when fire swept…
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Allegations were made in Newcastle Court today that a Jesmond man, after setting fire to his house…
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SYDNEY: A smouldering jacket in a first-class cabin in the liner Wanganella ended an attractive…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forest Fires in U.s.a
NEW YORK, Oct. 27. A.A.P.—A rash of forest fires crackled through woodlands in the mid-west to-day. Wispy blankets of smoke…
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27. A.A.P.—A fire burnt several racehorses to death at Louisville's Douglas Park race…
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CANBERRA: The Minister for the Army (Mr. Francis) told the House of Representatives that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blaze Destroys 300 Chickens
About 300 chickens were burnt and a brooder house was badly damaged in a fire on a Whitebridge poultry farm late…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Firemen to-night fought their way through flames and dense smoke in a harbour-side cafe…
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SYDNEY: A simplified method of prohibiting the lighting of fires in the open air should the need arise this summer was announced today by the Chief Secretary…
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"No wonder Newcastle Council cannot make ends meet," Mr. E. Kelleher told Ald. McGuirk at a meeting…
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A bushfire yesterday threatened several homes at Warriewood, in the Sydney area. Heat and gales were experienced over a wide area of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Damages Stairs In Hunter Street
A fire slightly damaged a stairway in a manufacturing agent's premises in Hunter St. West at about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forest Fire Smoke Blankets New York
NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.). — Smoke from forest fires in New England and upper New York…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2 A.A.P. — A slight fire, apparently started by a cigarette, broke out in…
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Cessnock had its first scrub fire of the summer when a large area of bush and grass was burnt near Catharine St., West…
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SYDNEY: Fanned by a strong westerly wind, the fire which threatened five houses at Warriewood yesterday flared up again shortly after noon today…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A bushfire has destroyed 50 square miles of scrub between Mona Vale and Kuringai…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Areas in which the lighting of open fires would be prohibited during the bushfire danger period…
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SEOUL (Korea), Tues. (A.A.P.) : Communist mortar fire yesterday blew to pieces three waves of South Korean troops making their biggest effort to retake Triangle Hill and Jane Russell Peaks. Two battalions…
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