£20,000 Furniture Factory Blaze
BRISBANE, Friday. — A fire practically destroyed a furniture factory at Yerongpilly today, and caused damage estimated at…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Big Forest Area Wiped Out by Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.—More than 10,000 acres of valuable pine forests haye been destroyed in one of the worst bushfire…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Several people watched helplessly, as the body of a 63 years old war pensioner was incinerated in a…
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Three calls to grass and rubbish fires were received by Lismore Fire Brigade in the 24 hours to nine o'clock last night…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. — Fire caused damage estimated at £25,000 to the Heidelberg Motor Bus Co. Pty. Ltd. premises early today. Police are investigating a theory that the fire was deliberately started…
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LOS ANGELES, Tuesday (AAP). —Firemen yesterday stood knee deep in wine to fight a fire at Cuoamonga, which exploded about…
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A foreman was blown through a galvanised iron wall and a chemist had his clothes set alight when fire followed an…
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NEW YORK, Sunday (AAP).—A coroner's jury at Davenport (Indiana) found yesterday that Mrs. Elnora Epperly, 22, started the fire in…
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About 400 acres of heath country near Evans Head were burnt out by a fire which raged throughout yesterday. Fanned by strong easterly and…
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CAPETOWN, Tuesday (AAP). — A fresh bushfire broke out at Simonstown naval base a few hoars after the district's worst…
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CASINO, Friday.—A gate post and several palings were burnt during an outbreak of fire behind Fossey's store, in Walker Street,…
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PERTH, Monday.—Four forest fires near Nannup, 181 miles south of Perth, which are believed to have been deliberately lit this afternoon,…
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Lismore police will take action against people who carelessly light fires, Inspector J. E. Forsyth said…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire swept through the railway station building at Gunnedah, completely destroying the roof and causing…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday. — Vivian Robert Whitton, a boarder at the Woolgoolga Hotel, was severely burnt about the legs and body…
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GLENFALLS (New York), Wedesday (AAP).—The five storey Tow ers Hotel here was destroyed by fire just before dawn today and police…
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NEW YORK, Thursday (AAP).— Nine guests were injured and six firemen hurt by a falling wall when a fire raced through the 100 room…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fire completely gutted a factory in Bourke Road, Waterloo, tonight, causing more than £100,000 damage…
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NEW YORK, Friday (AAP).—Thirteen members of two American families yesterday perished in two fires in the United States, while four Chinese died and 20 others were injured in a blaze in Montreal's China Town…
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OCEAN FALLS (British Columbia), Wednesday (AAP).—Eight persons were burned to death in a fire which gutted a block of flats…
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