Blaze at Fire Station
WELLINGTON, April 13. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Fire to-night destroyed the interior of Fairlie fire station…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
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Pensioner Dies In Hut Blaze
SYDNEY, Monday.—Patrick McHugh, 65, pensioner, was burnt to death to-day when an exploding spirit stove…
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NEW YORK, April 13. A.A.P.—The pilot of an airliner taking off from Syracuse airport yesterday spotted…
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NEW YORK, April 13. A.A.P.—A family of six was wiped out early to-day in a fire that swept their…
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Waste timber at the rear of Varley's engineering works in Darby-street, Newcastle, caught fire last night…
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A quantity of waste timber caught alight at the rear of G. H. Varley Ltd.'s engineering shops in Darby…
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A fire caused more than £1000 worth of damage at Pryde's Sweets Pty. Ltd's factory in High-street,…
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KATOOMBA.—A grocer's shop on the corner of Neil and Cascade Sts., Katoomba, was badly damaged by…
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CHICAGO, Sun. (A.A.P.) —The death-roll in last Thursday's fire in the Haber Corporation factory…
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NEW YORK, April 19. A.A.P.—Fire swept the Newport Casino at Rhode Island yesterday, causing 60,000…
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GRAFTON, Sunday. — A truck and its load of furniture and household effects were destroyed by fire at Nymboida…
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SYDNEY: Registration of so-called "billiards clubs" under the Billiards and Bagatelle Act would assist in combating crime among juveniles, declared senior…
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NEW YORK, April 20. A.A.P.—A Chicago man was detained in Ann Arbor (Michigan) in connection with last…
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A grass fire broke out in Coolamon Rd., Waratah, this morning but was quickly extinguished by an…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. —Mornington peninsula was blacked out when a scrub fire burnt down an electric…
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NEW YORK, Thursday. (A.A.P.)—Dominik Nappi. 55, his clothes flaming from a petrol explosion, threw…
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George Lamb, a railway timekeeper, was badly burnt yesterday afternoon when his tent at Stroud Road caught…
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SYDNEY: Two senior officers of Leichhardt Council have been dismissed by the Administrator (Mr. H. W. Dane). They are the engineer (Mr. F. G. Harding), and…
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Part of the tile roof of a home at East Maitland collapsed on Saturday after a roof fire had burnt out…
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MONTREAL, Sunday (A.A.P.).—Eight children died in a fire which destroyed a house early today…
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