Traffic Blocked By Pole Fire
Traffic in Union-st., between Tooke-st. and Parkway-ave., was diverted for about 20 minutes this afternoon when fire burnt through an electric light pole in National Park and…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
674 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 34
£84 in Fire Victim Fund
The Charlestown Fire Victim Appeal stands at £84, including £40 raised from door to door canvassing…
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MONTREAL, Mon. (A.A.P.): A man whose dreams were "filled with flames" admitted today that he started 46 fires in 18 months, including one in which two firemen died, say police. Viateur le Febvre, 23, was…
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CANBERRA.—Gifts of £1 or more to bushfire relief funds organised by public bodies are allowable…
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Penalty claims for working in heating areas would, if granted, tend to disorganise the industry, a mineowners' spokesman said yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — A plan to reorganise firefighting in N.S.W. would be submitted to Cabinet soon, the Chief…
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SYDNEY Friday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Evatt) to-day extended the total ban on lighting fires in the open…
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If you live in New York, you know that Madison Square Garden is not located on Madison Square, and that the International Boxing Club, which stages fights at the Garden, is neither international nor a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.— Men, women and children, in night attire, jumped from windows to escape a fire in a…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 25. A.A.P.—Robert Riemsmann, 15, suffered critical burns in a vain attempt to rescue a…
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Maitland and East Maitland fire brigades made a good save when the roof of the kitchen and laundry of the…
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SINGAPORE, Tuesday. (A.A.P.) — Police set up road-blocks, cordoning off part of the city last night,…
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SYDNEY.—Six men, trapped by fire below decks on a converted L.S.T. at Balmain today, escaped…
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LEXINGTON (Kentucky), Wed. (A.A.P.)—A warehouse, filled with tobacco leaf, was destroyed…
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MONTREAL. Feb. 27. A.A.P.—Five members of a family—two elderly brothers, a daughter-in-law of one of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fire below decks in a former L.S.T. blocked the only companionway and trapped six…
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SYDNEY: The ban on lighting fires in the open air on the coast and tablelands and in the…
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CANBERRA, Thursday. —The Government will immediately consider amending the Taxation Act to alleviate the…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — The probition on the lighting of fires in the open on coastal and Tableland areas of [?]…
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If a volunteer fire brigade were formed in the Heaton-Birmingham Gardens area the men would…
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