Blaze on Carrier
Two men were killed and 36 injured in an explosion on the U.K. carrier "Indomitable" this month. Below, fire-fighting operations in progress as dense clouds pour from the ship's…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
318 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 16
Fire After Robbery
SYDNEY, Friday.—A firm which lost £6,000 in a pay-roll robbery yesterday received another hard blow…
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A fire broke out in the engine of a 1938 model sedan at 9.30. last night in Lismore…
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Lismore Fire Brigade effected a remarkable save of the closest house, when a blaze completely gutted Bucket's Northside Service Station at 67 Terania Street, North Lismore, last night…
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TEHERAN, Sunday (AAP).—Troops opened fire and used bayonets when screaming pro-Shah demonstrators milled around the home of Persian Premier, Dr. Mossadeq, last night…
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The Northside Service Station which was gutted by fire on Sunday night, will have to be rebuilt. It was stated…
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The Lismore Fire Brigade received two ea[?]s [?]thin a half hour yesterday afternoon to attend…
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SEOUL, Friday.—The U.S. battleship, Missouri, yesterday came under enemy fire for the first time since the…
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A young married woman—mother of seven children and expecting another child next month —figured in a dramatic and heroic rescue of her youngest child from their blazing home at Green…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday (AAP).—The U.S. Army would fire the world's first atomic shell from its new 280 m.m. atomic artillery cannon during the spring series of nuclear experiments at the…
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Fire early this morning completely gutted the home of Mr. Alec. Bryen at the corner of…
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A family in desperate circumstances after a fatal fire at Bexhill will have an unfurnished house to go to when the injured mother is discharged from hospital…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. —Farmers tonight are still fighting a fire that got to within three miles of…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday (AAP).—Fire yesterday burned out the heart of the waterfront at Wilmington, North…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday.—A bush fire brigade captain was fined £30 in Morwillumbah Court of…
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NEWARK (New Jersey), Thursday (AAP). — A New Jersey State safety inspector examined the blackened…
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Slight but courageous, Mrs. Eunice Miller, whose baby died in Lismore Base Hospital after she had rescued it from her blazing home at Green Gates, near Bexhill, will go to the family's new…
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Because of the disastrous bush fires, which in recent years have ravaged certain districts in New South Wales,…
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The Chief Secretary's Office last week advised that proclaimed bush fire danger periods throughout the State…
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CASINO, Tuesday.—Fire occurred in an electric switchboard at el Gronda Cafe in Barker Street last…
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