False Fire Calls Mostly "Honest"
During the year Newcastle fire brigades received more than 100 false alarms, but a fire officer said today that the majority of them were accidental…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 32
102 False Alarms In Fire Calls
Brigades in the Newcastle and Lake district, fire areas received 1142 calls to fires last year. There were 1040…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—An Auster plane on Saturday will patrol between Newcastle and Wollongong on a bushfire…
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CHICAGO, Jan. 1. A.A.P.—The death toll in a fire in a furniture store rose to-day to six with the recovery of…
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Belmont Fire Brigade put out a small fire in grass at Pelican, off Soldiers-road, yesterday, and New Lambton…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—Many people were trampled to death in a panic among New Year revellers when an explosion rocked the Valparaiso…
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HOUSTON (Texas), Sun., (A A P): Feuding Texans shot it out from behind overturned tables in a Saturday night bar-room fight that left three men dead and another wounded. The bar was wrecked…
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A shop and dwelling at the corner of Feahan-street and Appletree-road, Estelville, occupied by John Warren, were…
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PUSAN, Jan. 4. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A wind-fanned fire which swept through the shanty-town area of Pusan…
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SYDNEY.— Smart sprinter Liquid Fire will resume racing in the Flying Handicap at Rosehill on…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Kelly) to-day reimposed a ban on lighting fires in the open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland's 78 Fire Calls In 1952
Maitland Fire Brigade attended 78 calls of fire last year, compared with 72 in 1951, according to…
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Seventy-eight calls of fire—six more than in 1951—were received by Maitland Fire Brigade last year. Fire engines…
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NEW YORK, Tues., (A.A.P.): Dan Parker, sports columnist of the mass circulated "Daily Mirror", today strongly criticised the actions of the Australian L.T.A. president, Sir Norman…
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BUENOS AIRES (Argentina), Jan. 9. A.A.P.—Fifteen persons were burned to death here last night when a city…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—A bushfire near Jamestown destroyed 300 sheep, 2000 acres of grazing land and stubble…
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BERLIN, Jan. 9. A.A.P.—A British patrol in an armoured car overshot the East-West German frontier on…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A man played a garden hose on a blazing car for several minutes to-day before he noticed a small boy crouched in the front…
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EVA PERON (Argentin)a Jan. 11. A.A.P.—More than one million gallons of crude oil and petrol were burnt and…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A car which was taking the President of the Senate (Senator Mattner) from Canberra…
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