Fire Menace Research in Causes
Fifteen hundred lives are lost in fires in Britain every year and damage to the extent of £10,000,000 is done by them…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
28 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Orange Fire Investigation Sydney
Members of the Police Arson Squad went to Orange to inquire into a fire in the cottage occupied by John Apthorpe, a meat industry employee…
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[?]estry Officials were called out [?]p.m. last night to a fire in Pilliga [?]of Street Lights…
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One of England's latest medium fire floats at work extinguishing a fire aboard a ship. In a matter of minutes the float can pour water and boam a the rate of 10,000 gallons a minute on toa burning ship. The crew of nine live on the ship…
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Fire has gutted the greater part of North Auckland's largest departmental stores. causing damage estimated at £80,000…
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The fire which destroyed the old power station building on October 31 last was caused by Barry Hodges, a seven-year-old…
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[?] ten ton louvre van contain[?] a valuable consignment of [?]sehold furniture and effects [?] destroyed by fire while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£20,000 Fire at Gunnedah GUNNEDAH
Two shops were destroyed and the wing of the Royal Hotel, badly damaged in a fire that broke out in Gunnedah early' today. Twenty persons, deluding a man who carried a…
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Although there is little danger of bush fires at this time of the year, the Bush Fires' Advisory Committee is urging all landholders to plan to…
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It is proposed to alter the constitution of the Board of Fire Commissioners to provide for one member to represent both the Government and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arson Suspected Id School Fire SYDNEY
Menaced by falling pieces of blazing timber, 20 firemen from three brigades, battled for more than an hour to control the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dutch Give Cease Fire Order BATAVIA, Monday. A.A.P.
Reuter.—An order has been given to terminate Dutch action in Indonesia at midnight tonight. A republican government…
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Last year the total fire damage was £60,974 and it was a season not favourable to bush fires! What can happen if we…
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PITTSBURGH, Wednesday.—Twenty seven persons were killed when the five decked oil-burning excursion steamer Island Queen—claimed to be the largest vessel of its kind in the United States—burned and sank…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spectacular Botany Blaze £7,000 Wool Treatment Works Burnt: Houses Saved SYDNEY
Twelve Yearlings valued at £25,000, had to be led to safety from nearby stables when their millionaire owner's (F. W…
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Wednesday (AAP).—Sixteen persons were burned to death many injured when fire destroyed "Teatro Margot," a leading…
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Early travellers to Japan reported that in trials for theft, a piece of red hot metal was placed in the hand of the accused, who then threw it away…
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Special precautions to protect the record harvest against fire arising from tractors and other vehicles were announced by the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, today. The precautions take the form of a direction under…
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PORTLAND. Maine. Sunday (AAP).—For the first time in weeks firefighters held the line yesterday on all fronts of the…
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At the annual genera] meeting of the Bellata Bush Fire Brigade all arrangements were made to place the equipment in order, and ready for any…
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