Fire Guts Bazaar
RANGOON, Monday. (A.A.P.)—Fire gutted the entire bazaar area of Chauk, Central Burma oil…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 32
£25,000 Fire In Veneer Plant
GRAFTON, Sunday.— A fire which swept through a veneer and plywood factory this afternoon caused damage…
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A married couple and their four children were left homeless today when fire destroyed the tent they…
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LONDON, June 29. A.A.P. —Fifty Africans died in a great harbour fire at Beira (Portuguese East Africa) on…
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RANGOON, June 29. A.A.P.—Fire gutted the bazaar area of Chauk yesterday, causing damage estimated at…
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LONDON. — Firemen recovered some valuable pieces of jewellery — some of them charred — after…
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A tent home in the camping area at Belmont Park was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. It was owned by…
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Smoke began to pour from recently constructed seals in No. 8 west section of Aberdare Extended colliery…
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Six hundred children at Cook's Hill School today received practical fire-fighting knowledge when…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A kerosene heater is believed to have started a fire which destroyed thousands of pounds'…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday. — The Melbourne sprinter, Pure Fire, having his first Brisbane trial, sprinted in fine style…
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Brigades were called to two small fires in Newcastle district yesterday. Damage was slight…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.— Fire severely damaged a packing manufacturing factory under a railway viaduct in The…
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ASANSOL (West Bengal), July 6. A.A.P. — Six people were killed and 11 injured when Police opened fire…
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MURWILLUMBAH: A Macedonian-born banana grower told Coroner's inquiry here today that he had been told that his I 17-year-old daughter was to have been kidnapped at a party on April 23—the night his house was burned down…
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LOS ANGELES, July 6. A.A.P.—A four-day fire burnt on to-day in the rugged San Gabriel Mountains, despite the…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners advised Newcastle City Council last night that representations boy Wallsend…
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INVEBELL.—Jack Carroll, of Texas, collided with a post while driving a petrol lorry on the Bonshaw…
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MURWILLUMBAH: The District Coroner (Mr. C. H. Hubbard) told the Crabbe's Creek fire inquiry today that it was "obvious" he was not getting the whole truth in the inquiry, but only some of it…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Three men escaped with singed hair from an explosion and fire which severely damaged a…
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