Most Fires Murwillumbah to Fore in October
SYDNEY, Tuesday:--A report issued by the Secretary of the Fire Board (Mr. Webb) to-day showed that 5,032 fire alarms were raised…
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Fires & bushfires, 1936
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Increase in Fire Alarm Calls SYDNEY
A report issued by the Secretary of the Fire Board (Mr. Webb) to-day, showed that there were 5032 fire alarms raised in the Metropolitan area during…
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Fire destroyed the residence at Brooklana (Clarence River) of Mr. T. T. Campbell, manager of a sawmill. Campbell and his wife and family were…
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Lismore firemen had a quiet time during 1935, the number of calls received at the station being only 26. The number…
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REYKJAVIK (Greenland), Tuesday:--Four children and two women were killed and 20 were injured in the village hall at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anti-fire Gas. To Be Used in New Liner
Gas is to be used for fire-fighting, in the Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary, now fitting out at Clydebank. Equipment will be installed which will…
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Four children and two women were killed and 20 were injured in the village hall at Kuelavik which burned like tinder when a Christmas tree ignited,…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday:-- A fire which lit, up the countryside for a radius of three miles at Catherine Hill Bay last night destroyed the…
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The Casino fire brigade answered 20 calls last year, three of these being false alarms. Four calls were received through the fire alarm, six through the…
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A sedan car was stolen' on Tuesday while its owner, Mr. C. A. Brown, a member of the forestry office staff, and several other men were fighting…
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While Mrs. Cooper and family (Rock Valley) were on holiday with Mrs. Cooper's sister at Brunswick, Mr. Cooper slept on the verandah at his…
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Fire broke cut in the servants' quarters of the mess of the officers of the guard at St. James's Palace, London, recently states the "Manchester…
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A. A. Lawrence, a Boston journalist, travelled 3,500 miles to fire one shot, He took a month's holiday and went to Admiralty Island near Junea,…
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OAKEY, Friday:--In the most disastrous fire in the history of the town five business premises were completely destroyed to-night…
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A laundry at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Johnson, Mullumbimby, was damaged by fire this afternoon. Hearing a crackling noise, Mrs…
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A collision between two moving cars, one of which cannoned into a stationary car in Molesworth-street, near the Capitol Cafe, on Saturday night,…
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The customary Sunday's peace in Mullumbimby was disturbed yesterday afternoon by the vigorous ringing of the fire bell as the result of the…
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While Mrs. Cooper and family were on holiday at Brunswick, Mr. Cooper slept on the verandah at his plantation at Rock Valley. About…
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Dr. Gordon W. Kline, of the Bureau of Standards, has discovered a chemical that will reduce the fire hazard in airplanes. The airplane…
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The smallest individual item of cargo ever carried by the Air Lines of Australia aeroplanes went south recently when pilot J. McLaughlin…
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