Waterfront Blaze Tanker Buckled Wreck
LONG BEACH (California), Monday.—Hours after the tanker Markey, loaded with 2,940,000 gallons of petrol, exploded in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Waterfront Blaze Tanker Buckled Wreck
LONG BEACH (California), Monday.--Hours after the tanker Markey, loaded with 2,940,000 gallons of petrol, exploded in…
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Lismore Fire Brigade last night attended a false alarm at Marmosa Bakery. Ballina Street. The brigade received the call at 7.15…
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BRUSSELS, Wednesday:—17 persons were killed and 15 injured in a fire in the Ministry of Education building,…
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BRUSSELS, Wednesday (AAP).--Seventeen persons are so far known to have been killed, and 40 injured when a disastrous fire in the Ministry…
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A novel fire-fighting machine, which utilises an aircraft propeller, has been developed by a newspaper editor in Canada. The machine is…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: "A coroner's inquiry will be held into Wednesday morning's fire at the oil storage depot at…
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MILWAUKEE, Sunday (AAP).--The Rev. Dr. John Lewis was sentenced to one to five years' hare labour for having set fire to his…
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Of 53 grass fires attended by Coolangatta Fire ^Brigade during the year ended on Monday last 48 were grass fires caused through…
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The chairman (Mr. S. W. Winders) presided at the first annual meeting of Coolangatta Fire Brigade Board and reported a…
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Move to secure £100 worth of fire-lighting equipment for Tweed bushfire brigades was initiated at a meeting at…
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LONDON, Thursday: Fire destroyed the whole of the top floor of the G.P.O. central telegraph office, London…
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WELLINGTON, Sunday: Four girls between the ages of 17, and 22 were burned to death and two other women and one…
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Lismore Fire Brigade attended only two fires during the month of June Both were minor outbreaks. There was also a false alarm…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesdays: After a man whose clothes were a lignt had dashed from a building at Hamilton today and given…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: City Fire Brigade officers today warned that the present dry spell might result in a serious…
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Fire destroyed a car and garage the property of Mr. J. N. Wallwork, of the Pocket, on Saturday night. Both car and garage were a…
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AUCKLAND, Monday: Members of the Royal Sew Zealand Air Force fire section at Watenuatai air station decided it was…
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THE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Tuesday: The Kenai Peninsula forest fire is advancing on a 70- mile front…
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FRANKFURT (A.P.): Some [?]00,000 gallons of fire-bomb jelly— left over from the American air campaign against Germany—have…
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