Batlow Fire Victim Identified
The charred body of a man found in the ruins of a house destroyed by fire at Bago Forest, near Barlow, on Saturday night has been…
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Fires
There was a fire on the second floor of the Coolamon [?] last Sunday, in a dressing alcove off a bedroom. Curtains were burned, a dressing table…
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BRISBANE, Friday: Valuable machinery was destroyed when a fire caused damage estimated at £18,000 at Fielding's peanut paste…
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MADRAS, Sunday: A fire which has been raging for two days in Rajahmundry, destroyed property valued at £2,000,00 sterling and…
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The cost of running the Junee Fire Brigade is excessive, according to the opinions of Junee aldermen expressed at the last meeting…
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ROME, Thursday: Twenty bodies have been recovered from the offices of the Minerva Film Company following the fire which gutted the building…
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Handicapped by lack of water pressure and fire-fighting equipment, a voluntary fire brigade at Lake Cargelligo was powerless last night to…
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Handicapped by lack of water pressure and fire-fighting equipment, a voluntary fire brigade at Lake Cargelligo was powerless last night to prevent the total destruction of the £30,000 freezing works owned by John Davies & Co. FIRST intimation of the fire…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A fire destroyed some thousands of pounds worth of rubber and rubber-making machinery at a factory owned by the…
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Culcairn Shire Council, at the request of the Culcairn Progress Association, has decided to seek a properly constituted fire…
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Wednesday night's £30,000 fire at Lake Cargelligo has again drawn attention to the need for an immediate review of fire righting facilities in country areas in the State. The big blaze on Wednesday night could have been…
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ROME Friday: According to the Rome police a stork room employee of the Minerva Film Corporation has confessed "under questioning"…
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WAGGA Civic Fathers ahoy! What has Leeton and Carrethool got that Wagga hasn't? Definite plans for grand…
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KURE. Sunday. A fire of unknown origin destroyed two-thirds: of the New Zealand battalion's camp at Senzaki on Friday…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Two shops were destroyed, and a wing of a hotel badly damaged, in a fire, that broke out in Gunnedah early today. Twenty…
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GUNNEDAH, Tuesday: Two men a woman, and a baby had narrow escapes from being trapped in a fire which destroyed a large portion of the…
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GUNNEDAH, Monday: Two men, a woman, and a baby had narrow escapes from being trapped in a fire which…
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A spectacular fire which destroyed part of the Royal Hotel and caused altogether about £20,000 damage was the second hotel fire at Gunnedah in…
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SYDNEY. Friday: A dead man was found in a smoke filled room at Enmore today. He was Ernest Collins, 50, invalid…
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TOKIO, Monday: Two British officers were killed in a big fire which razed the officers' mess of the British Commonwealth Air Group at Iwakuni…
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