Fire Wipes Out Port
BOGOTA (Colombia), Sunday: A fire last night destroyed Tumaco, Colombia's second most importan western port…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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In Brief Factory Gutted by Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A large hardware factory owned by the R. B. Davies Pty. Ltd., Illawarra Road. Marrickville, was gutted by…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP)--Damage estimated at £1,000,000 was caused when a London warehouse containing whisky, sugar and nuts was gutted…
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The Department of Conservation was anxious to see closer afforestation on private land, said the Minister for Conservation (Mr. Weir), opening the annual conference of the Forestry Advisory Council. Mr. Weir said that State forests at…
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Faced with reduced output through the coal shortage, Lancashire cotton mills are burning miles of fire hose pipe, which, during the war, was used to combat blitz fires. Train loads of the piping are sent to the mills in an all out effort to keep production figures up. Photo shows a hose pipe dump in the yard of a Lancashire cotton mill, similar to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.-- With westerly winds and warm to hot weather expected to continue for the next 24 hours at least, the…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: A fire which began in a forest raged through Kennebunk, Port Maine, last night, causing at…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Local residents and firemen for more than two hours today fought a bushfire which raged in scrubland…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: With westerly winds and warm to hot weather expected to continue for the next 24 hours at least,…
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A public meeting was held in Cudgera hall on Friday night last to form a Bushfire Brigade. There was a fair attendance. Mr…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--Mystery surrounds the origin of a fire which raged for four hours early this morning at Clyde, causing £50,000…
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PORTLAND (Maine), Friday: The mass evacuation of three [?] Maine towns near the Newhampshire border got under…
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A passing taxi-driver helped extinguish the flames when the engine of a car owned by Mr. C. West, of Geneva, caught fire. The…
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SINGLETON, Friday.--A seven months' old baby was suffocated and damage estimated at £2000 was caused in a fire which destroyed…
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NEW YORK, Friday: Messages from Portland (Maine) state that a rescue fleet of 40 fishing smacks joined the Navy and Coastg[?]ard craft from a dozen New England ports last night to re cue 2000 residents huddled…
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The Lismore Fire Brigade was called out on Saturday afternoon to extinguish a grass fire in Orion Street, Lismore. With the help of…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday (AAP). -- President Truman to-day proclaimed the entire State of Maine a disaster area as forest fires continue to spread throughout the State…
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A small touring car, owned by Keith Pearce, of Goonellabah, caught fire in Keen Street, Lismore, on Saturday afternoon…
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PORTLAND (Maine), Monday (AAP)--For the first time in a week the fire fighters held a line yesterday on all fronts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hidden Money Lost When Fire Destroys House
Twenty-two pounds in money and a gold wristlet watch, hidden in a handbag in a house, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whalan and family, of Norton Street, Kyogle, were lost when the house was destroyed by fire on Saturday night…
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