Pure Fire for Brisbane
MELBOURNE, Thursday. —Pure Fire would go to Brisbane for the Doomben Ten Thousand, Mr. J. Wren,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
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Fire Destroys Market Store
MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Ten fruit and vegetable, store rooms at Victoria Market were destroyed by fire this…
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SAO PAULO (Brazil), Sunday (A.A.P.): At least 63 persons were reported…
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DURBAN, June 16. A.A.P. —A fire destroyed a six-acre British Wool Commission warehouse in the docks of…
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VANCOUVER Tues. (A.A.P) Flames and explosions aboard an oil and petrol-laden…
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SYDNEY. — A 74-year-old widow was rescued unconscious from a burning room in Elizabeth St.,…
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Three suburban fire brigades attended grass and bush fires yesterday. Merewether firemen were…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— Fire gutted a weatherboard cottage occupied by a family of eight in Palmer-street, Balmain,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Ushers and firemen to-night evacuated about 500 picturegoers from the Odeon Theatre,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — A man ran into a blazing hut at Bradfield Park housing settlement-to-day to rescue his baby…
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Brigades were called to two fires and a false alarm in the Newcastle district yesterday. The fires were put out before…
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LONDON, June 22. A.A.P. —The Australian-born Notts professional cricketer. Bruce Dooland, with his wife and…
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Brigades attended two fire, in Newcastle district yesterday. One was in the council dump at Boolaroo and the other in…
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Police in Lowell (Massachusetts) traced a fire that destroyed a 25,000 dollar (£A11,250) building in the town to a pigeon. The pigeon had built its nest in a corner of the…
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Fire slightly damaged a wall in a cottage occupied by J. McAuliffe, Bryant-street, Tighe's Hill, yesterday…
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KYOGLE—A fire yesterday destroyed the Urbenville timber mill owned by Stubbings Bros. Loss is…
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NEW YORK, June 25. A.A.P.—Fire broke out yesterday in an airliner as it flew over the Atlantic, with 37…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A Wallan dairy farmer, Albert Drash, dragged the driver of a petrol tanker from a pool…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Fire destroyed the home and all the possessions of a woman invalid pensioner at Smithfield…
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LONDON, June 28. A.A.P. —Twenty African wharflabourers were killed and five ships set alight when petrol…
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