£300,000 Loss in 2 Fires
Two fires, in Brisbane and Sydney early yesterday, caused damage estimated at £300,000. Almost half a block of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
674 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 34
School Ground Fire
Fanned by a strong wind a fire in the grounds of Cessnock Technical College yesterday burned a…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Mon.—Taranaki town hero R. A. Hardy, a youth, took a fire to the fire station to have it put out. Hardy was driving a car in Main St., Taranaki…
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SYDNEY: Firemen used hundreds of gallons of foam to extinguish a fire at Vesta Battery Co. Ltd.'s…
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A 16-year-old girl rescued three sleeping children from a burning home at Appletree Flat, Jerry's Plains, on…
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A 26-year-old married woman, badly burnt in a fire which destroyed her home at Marks Point on…
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LONDON.—Fireworks stacked in a sub-post office at East-rd., Chadwell Heath, Essex, ready for…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire caused damage estimated at £1000 to-day when it gutted the moulding room of the…
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District brigades were called to several minor fires today Toronto went to a small…
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MELBOURNE. — Damage estimated at £40,000 was caused by a five which partly destroyed the store…
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Brigades yesterday attended four grass fires at Toronto, Cardiff, New Lambton Heights and off High-street, Newcastle…
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MELBOURNE. — Pure Fire, the crack two-year-old last autumn, who failed in his races this spring, is…
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LONDON.—Mrs. G. Parsons, 70, of Belgrave St., Brighton, was seriously injured when she was…
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Brigades attended seven grass fires in the Newcastle area yesterday. The fires were put out before doing damage…
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Ambulance and fire brigades in Newcastle were hoaxed yesterday and last night when called to supposed accidents…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The bushfire danger should be high to extreme in northern parts of New South. Wales on…
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An unused battery box on the side of the railway line near Broadmeadow high level bridge was extensively…
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TAMWORTH, Friday. — A man whose hair caught fire rolled in stubble to put it out but he started a blaze which…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire destroyed the School of Arts, Marrickville, early this morning. The blaze was brought…
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LONDON. — Every time the brigade is called out to a fire it is a 10-to-one chance that a child…
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