Fire Fighting Gear Sought
It was resolved at a meeting of Tunglebung P.P.U. branch to write to Kyogle Shire and ask to be supplied with fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
335 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 17
Heavy Damage In Ship Fire
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fire in the 10,000 ton interstate freighter Teespool caused more than £35,000…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—A young truck driver and a youth were burned to death when their semi-trailer…
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BURBANK, Friday (AAP). A group of investigators yesterday ruled out arson as the cause of Wednesday's…
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A warning by a motorist enabled firemen last night to save the Masonic Hall from destruction by fire. A fire broke out in a room…
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PORT MORESBY, Sunday(AAP).—Two Europeans and about 50 natives are believed to have been…
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Lismore firemen tonight extinguished a blaze in a pile of rubbish in a used car park in Woodlark Street, Lismore…
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Detectives investigating Sunday night's fire in the Masonic Hall yesterday arrested a 28-year-old shop…
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FAIRBANKS (Alaska), Tuesday (AAP).—At least four persons are believed to have lost their lives and several others are reported missing in an hotel fire here which may reach the proportions of a major disaster. There were 250 people in…
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A 28-year-old grocer, charged with maliciously setting fire to a building, was remanded to July 28 by Mr. K. Anderson, S.M., in Lismore Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Police have opened extensive investigations in the cause of a fire which caused…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Wednesday.—Byron Shire Council will be requested to make application to the N.S.W. Bushfire Committee to supply the Mullumbimby and Brunswick Bushfire…
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Terania Shire Council will instruct ratepayers and residents to clear their properties of fire hazards as a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Employees fled for their lives when fire engulfed two large buildings in…
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A fireman plays water onto flames as they gush from one of the two buildings almost gutted by fire on Thursday in George Street North Sydney. Damage was estimated at £200,000…
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A man who admitted setting, alight to Lismore Masonic Hall said he later went back and helped firemen fight the fire, a detective said yesterday…
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Lismore Coroner, Mr. H. L. Pelham, yesterday committed Norman Sheppard for trial in the Supreme Court on charges of maliciously setting fire to buildings…
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CHICAGO, Friday (AAP). —The Chicago Fire Department today ordered the Democratic National…
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HONG KONG, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).—A delegation of Chinese residents of the tiny Portugese…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Damage by fire at the Miles Manufacturing Company's extensive electroplating works…
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