Fire in Block of Flats
SYDNEY, Friday. —Hundreds of people prepared to move out of residentials in Womerah-avenue,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 32
Engine of Bus on Fire
The engine of a doubledecker bus caught alight at Hamilton North last night. The fire was put out by the…
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LONDON, Feb. 6. A.A.P. —Mrs. Penelope Vera Bowers, 37, the authoress, who died in a fire at her Surrey house last…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.— Fire to-day destroyed most of the stables owned by Messrs. Jack and Eddie Doran,…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9. A.A.P.—Fire swept through an airport hangar at Lindenhurst (New York) yesterday,…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—Four men died and six were injured in an early morning boarding house fire…
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SYDNEY. — While firemen fought a factory fire from the railway track, steam trains were diverted…
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YOKOHAMA, Friday. (A.A.P.)—The crippled U.S. freighter President Pierce reached Yokohama Harbor…
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TOKYO, Feb. 13. A.A.P.- Reuter—Eight Japanese fire tugs to-day extinguished the fire on board the 7953-ton…
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An ambulance man was on the scene immediately and Newcastle Fire Brigade arrived within three minutes when an explosion occurred this morning at the Hunter-st electricity sub-station, but the services of neither were needed'…
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BALTIMORE (Maryland), Tues. (A.A.P.) — Flames, fanned by a strong wind, swept Baltimore…
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Newcastle City Council decided last night to ask the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales to…
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Ald. Quinlan once again has suggested that Newcastle Council take over the fire brigade services in its area. The move followed strong criticism by aldermen, led…
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LONDON: Flooring burned during evensong at St. Paul's, Wolborough, Devon, recently…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.— C.I.B. detectives have been called to investigate a £60,000 fire in an East Brunswick…
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Mr. C. Lucas, an inspector of the Board of Fire Commissioners, had said he would recommend to the board that…
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WASHINGTON: Forest fires brought death to 10-million American acres last year. Damage would hare been worse but for helicopters and parachute-jumpers, radio, water-bombs and bulldozers. Such scientific tools are…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 24. A.A.P.—Five children and two adults died when fire raced through four wooden…
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HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Tues. (A.A.P.): Eleven persons, including seven children under 10, perished in fires at Halifax and Montreal. In a fire that raced…
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SYDNEY. — The firm which lost £6000 in a payroll robbery yesterday, received another setback…
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