4 Believed Dead In Fire
HONGKONG, Dec. 20. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Four Chinese children were believed killed early this morning when a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
584 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 30
Baby Badly Burnt In Fire In Flat
SYDNEY, Monday. — A two-month-old baby girl was critically burnt when her bed-clothes caught fire in a…
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Firemen found 19 separate fires, which had apparently been started with hessian soaked in kerosene,…
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LONDON, Dec. 21. A.A.P. —Britain's main civil airports are to be equipped with an electric saw which can slice a…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday. —Mr. W. T. Liddle, a garage proprietor at Redhill, 103 miles north of Adelaide, and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man had said he set fire to a house so he could get the occupant out because he owned £26…
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Newcastle detective are investigation a fire that caused extensive damage to the interior of an unoccupied house…
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New Lambton Fire Brigade put out a small grass fire which broke out by the railway line near Kotara…
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Three brigades were sent to Zara-street powerhouse late yesterday when a store house was reported to be on fire…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Plans for the Summer Cup runner, Fire Dist, are still uncertain, his trainer, G. Brown,…
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NAIROBI, Dec. 22. A.A.P. —Mau Mau gangsters tried to set fire to the Nairobi home of Mr. Jack Ainsworth, the…
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NAIROBI, Dec. 22. A.A.P. —A London woman, Mrs. Doris McNichol, died in hospital last night, four weeks…
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A Fireman overcome by smoke being carried to an ambulance from the Variety Theatre fire, to be taken to Sydney Hospital for treatment…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Hundreds of theatre patrons had to dash through a wall of flames to escape from a fire in the Variety Theatre, Pitt Street, Sydney, to-day…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. —Miss Betty Kentish, 52, of no fixed abode, was seriously burnt to-day when a car in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Three large fires in the Sydney metropolitan area in the past four days caused damage estimated…
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Newcastle and district fire brigades attended four small fires during the week-end. Yesterday, Carrington…
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Three shops were badly damaged in Central-street, Cessnock, when a fire broke out in one of them at 10.30…
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Prompt action by Stockton Fire Brigade saved a house from being destroyed by fire when a…
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Newcastle brigades answered two false fire alarms last night. A telephone message said a garage at Mayfield was alight…
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