Four Fires
Brigades attended four small fires in Newcastle area yesterday. The duly damage was to part of a wall behind…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
584 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 30
Escaped Fire
SYDNEY: A family of six escaped from a seven-room weatherboard house five minutes before it was…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Fire this afternoon destroyed a large storage shed at the Australian Paper. Manufacturer's…
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SYDNEY: An appeal by the Railway Commissioner against a £45,000 bushfire damages verdict was dismissed by the Full Supreme Court today…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday, (A.A.P).—Seventy-eight persons escaped death when a DC-4 airliner, with…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full Supreme Court to-day dismissed an appeal by the Railways Commissioner against…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire broke out to-day on the destroyer Voyager, fitting out at Cockatoo Dock…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A crippled pensioner, George Bush, 66, who lived alone in a garage in Messenger-road,…
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BONN: Coastguards on the Frisian Island of Baltrum have developed a life-saving device from one…
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Maitland and East Maitland fire brigades were called to a fire yesterday, but their services were not needed…
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SINGAPORE, June 18. A.A.P.-Reuter.— An airport fire officer had acted with complete disregard for his own safety when trying to rescue…
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Four small fires were reported in Newcastle district yesterday. Cook's Hill and Waratah…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Firemen saved Macquarie House, which was threatened by an electrical fire to-day…
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SYDNEY.—Firemen today will demolish a wall of a city building which was badly weakened by fire…
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OTTAWA, Mon. (A.A.P.): Ontario police are searching for a man who assaulted a young mother, tied her to a chair and left her to burn to death with her two infant…
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Newcastle City Council authorised the City Engineer (Mr. Baddeley) last night to take steps to apprehend persons setting garbage alight at the Lorna-street tip. Ald. Edden said residents…
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A general survey of fire protection services in the Newcastle and Coalfields areas will be made by the…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners wrll visit Newcastle on July 2. The board advised…
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Proto men who re-entered No. 12 slants section of Bellbird colliery reported that there was now no evidence of…
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CANBERRA.—Fire yesterday severely damaged a weatherboard theatrette attached to the National…
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