Blaze On Pier: 100 Hurl
NEW YORK, Tuesday (AAP). -- More than 100 firemen were injured in a fire which destroyed 1000 feet of a Manhattan pier…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Riptide Injured in Scrub Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- A scrub fire at the week end nearly accounted for Riptide, favourite for the Breeders' Plate. Riptide received…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday: One of the most destructive wharf fires in New York's history was brought under…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- A meeting of fire brigade officers to-night re-affirmed the decision not to work more than 56 hours per…
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NEW YORK, Thursday: The United Press representative at Managua (Nicaragua) says: Sixteen persons were burned to…
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All persons working under the direction of a Group Captain, Captain Deputy Captain of any properly constituted and…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.-- After drinking all day yesterday Brian Patrick Michael Word. 24, climbed to the roof of the Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Officers on Normal Rosters
SYDNEY, Friday.-- Fire brigade officers resumed duties in accordance with normal rosters this morning. Decision to resume followed a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Burnt in Petrol Blaze on Launch
SYDNEY, Monday. -- Three men were burnt, one seriously, and all suffered from shock when a launch carrying three drums of petrol caught…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Three men were burned, two seriously, when a 22-foot launch caught fire about two miles off Avalon…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--More than 200 fire brigade officers in 75 metropolitan and 22 country stations were instructed by their union tonight to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- The Premier (Mr. McGirr) to-night conferred with officials of the Fire Brigade Officers'…
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Arrangements were made last night for volunteer firemen to man Lismore Fire Station while the two permanent officers take part in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Fire brigades throughout New South Wales are now working without the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gift of 3000ft. of New Hose to C'gatta Fire Brigade Board
Three thousand feet of new 2¾in. hose has been received by Coolangatta Fire Brigade Board as a gift from the Queensland Government, through the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board…
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Duty personnel at Lismore Fire Station yesterday gave an assurance that any outbreak of fire would receive prompt attention by…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--The three days' strike by more than 200 fire brigade officers in New South Wales ended to-night, when a mass…
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An ignition short circuit caused a fire in a timber truck owned by A Foster, sawmiller, of South Lismore, yesterday afternoon. The truck was…
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CHICAGO, Friday: Six children and four women were killed and over 12 persons injured early today in a tenement fire, which the police attributed to arson. All were negroes in a build[?]…
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BOGOTA (Columbia), Sunday (AAP) -- A fire last night destroyed Tumaco, Columbia's Second most important western port, rendering…
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