The Junior Herald Science Note Fire—Man's Servant
HAVE YOU EVER stopped to think how much we are dependent on fire? It is indeed a good servant in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 32
£2½m. Fire At Power Station
TORONTO, Mon. (AAP) — A fire swept through the Chats Falls hydroelectric power station…
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NEW YORK, Tues. (A-AP.): Seven were killed and 14 injured today when fire swept through a New York furniture factory. A woman who went back for her coat was among…
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NEW YORK, March 4. A.A.P.—Thirteen people lost their lives in three fires in the United States and the…
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A deputation from West Wallsend Progress and Amenities Committee will ask Lake Macquarie Shire Council to…
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DARWIN, Thursday.—The Northern Territory Administration dismissed the whole Darwin Fire Brigade to-day,…
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LONDON.—A new method of fighting forest fires by "bombing" them from the air with cement bags…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Victorian bushfires burnt out 14 square miles of forest land Lear Stawell and Matlock, and…
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FLINT (Michigan), Sun. (A.A.P.). — Six children aged from six months to six years died when fire…
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LISMORE, Sunday.—A two-year-old girl, rescued by her mother from a burning house last night, died in…
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BAYARD (New Mexico), Sun. (A.A.P.): Fire today damaged headquarters of the Mine and Smelters Union, which is sponsoring a controversial documentary film, 'Salt…
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WILMINGTON (North Carolina), Mon. (A.A.P.): A fire that burned out the heart of Wilmington's waterfront today was estimated to have caused 16 1/2 million damage. The city (population…
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MELBOURNE: A dog saved a caretaker from being trapped in a spectacular £100,000 fire which destroyed a 50-room mansion at Toorak last night. Thousands of P.M.G…
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A deputation from Newcastle City Council will meet the Board of Fire Commissioners on March 23…
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A deputation to Sydney soon would demand that the Board of Fire Commissioners revise completely the fire fighting service in Newcastle, Aid. T. Armstrong said today…
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Fire in scrub country outside Waratah Golf Club's course at Cockle Creek yesterday uncovered about 50 "lost"…
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NEWARK (New Jersey) Wed. (A. A. P.): Six workmen were killed and 13 injured today in a fire in a new fermentation building of a huge brewery here and another employee is missing. The blaze broke out in…
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HALIFAX, Wed. (A. A. P.) — Fire engulfed the machine shop at the Halifax shipyards early today with…
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CAPE TOWN, March 11. A.A.P.—Fire destroyed more than an acre of two-storey factory buildings within 200 yards…
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Police believe vandals were responsible for a fire which last night destroved a men's lavatory in…
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