4 Children Saved From House Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.—A young mother rescued three of her children from their blazing weatherboard cottage to-day,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 32
Two Mystery Fires Under Stage
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Police are investigating two mysterious fires which broke out under the stage at the…
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MELBOURNE.—Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the army camp…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 9. A.A.P.âSix children lost their lives in two fires yesterday. At Camden (New Jersey) an…
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Maitland Pastures Protection Board decided yesterday to ask the Chief Secretary to grant the captains of local fire…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A pilot whose aircraft crashed and was destroyed when he took off from Taree…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A cane farmer and his wife were badly burnt to-day when they were trapped burning off cane…
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DETROIT, Nov. 9. A.A.P.—Fire struck the General Motors automatic transmission division last night for the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire in a basement room of the A.B.C. building in William-street, Sydney, severely…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Seven cars were destroyed and eight badly damaged in a fire at a Neutral Bay garage to-night. Damage is estimated at…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 11. A.A.P.—Four sisters, three of them under five years of age, died to-day in a fire that…
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SYDNEY.—Thieves who broke into a Neutral Bay service station last night are believed to have…
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Three scrub and grass fires were reported in the Newcastle district yesterday. Two were at Waratah and one at…
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The State Weather Bureau warned last night that the bushfire danger was very high. Forestry officers in the Newcastle,…
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A freak whirlwind hit Braye-st., Mayfield, today, damaging homes and startling residents. As the wind howled from the direction of Waratah railway station it lifted half an iron roof from a house in Braye-st.,…
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A fire on the roof of the George Hotel, Scott-street, yesterday attracted three fire engines and hundreds of people. But it didn't move drinkers in the hotel's bars. Most of the drinkers, many…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Peak hour traffic was blocked when a fire broke out in the "Sun" building, Elizabeth-street, at…
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A bushfire yesterday burnt with in 30 yards of a powder magazine at Hillside Extended colliery. Fires also burnt near john Darling…
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Water caused damage to fittings and merchandise at Scotts Pty. Ltd. store, Hunter-street, last night when…
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BORDEAUX, Monday. (A.A.P.)—The crew of the 10,763-ton oil-laden French tanker Caltex-Bordeaux,…
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