23 Firemen Collapse In City Blaze
Four firemen were seriously injured by heat and fumes, and 19 others were affected while fighting a fierce fire in Linden Court,…
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Coal Gas Overcomes Firemen in City Blaze
Firemen who were called to an outbreak in the basement of a shop in Linden Court, Market Street, yesterday, were overcome by coal gas fumes seeping from a pipe, and 14 of them received treatment. Left: A fireman being carried out to ambulance men. Others recovering from their ordeal (above, right), watch one of their mates receiving attention. Above are two firemen at work in the basement, with water swirling around their ankles…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →14 Firemen Gassed. Big City Fire. Dragged to Safety by Comrades
Fourteen firemen were affected by smoke, heat, and coal gas fumes, and nine had to be taken to hospital, yesterday, after fighting one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Talks Begin. Britain and Fire. Partition Presents a Problem. LONDON, Jan. 17
A crowd assembled in Downing Street this morning to watch the arrival of delegates to a preliminary conference of Ministers before the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →30 Dead in Fire School a Blaze Trapped On Top Floor St. Hyacinthe, (Quebec)
Seventeen bodies have been recovered and at least thirteen are missing after the fire in the Sacred Heart…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires on Warships Investigated London
Police and Admiralty officials are conducting an Inquiry at Portsmouth Into four small fires on warships, including one on an aeroplane carrier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Conditions of Fire Brigade Men
The Editor. Sir,—May I, through your paper, let your readers, know the conditions under which permanent firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →£9,529,000 Fire Loss
LONDON, Tuesday.--The total estimated loss by fire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1937 was £9,529,000. This was £1,368,000 less than the estimate for 1936…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sabotage Feared. Fires in British Naval Vessels. LONDON, Jan. l8
The "Daily Mail" says: "Sabotage is suspected to have been the cause of a fire in the hangar aboard the cruiser Birmingham at Portsmouth Dockyard on January 15…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire Rages Near Homes Melbourne
Burning on a two-mile front, a fire near The Basin, at Ferntree Gully, in the foothills of the, Dandenongs, is sweeping, through the bush…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in College. Twenty Reported Dead
ST. HYACINTHE (Quebec), Jan. l8. Twenty students and teachers are reported to have been killed and 10 injured in a fire which destroyed the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Country News. Lightning Sets Fire to Grass. Adelong
Lightning has set fire to grass on two occasions during severe thunderstorms recently. A fire broke out in the long grass at Adelong cemetery, but fire-fighters succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Bush Fire Facts
Has it ever occurred to you that sufficient growing timber to have built numerous houses is destroyed every year by bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop-press College Fire Toll
St. Hyacinthe (Quebec). --The known death roll in the Sacred Heart College fire now totals 19, but 26 others are missing…
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S. HYACINTHE (Quebec), Wed. OVER 30 persons perished when a disastrous fire broke out in the Sacred Heart College last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Victims' Frantic Leap to Icy Earth
ST. HYACINTHE (Quebec), Wednesday. -- Forty boys and lay brothers are now believed to have perished in the fire which destroyed the Sacred Heart…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Hostel. Guests Escape in Night Attire. ADELAIDE
A fire early this morning at the People's Palace Hostel, Pirie Street, which is conducted by the Salvation Army, caused damage estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Boys Burnt to Death. Fire at College. Scenes of Panic
ST. HYACINTHE (Quebec), Jan. 18. It is now feared that 30 persons, chiefly boys, lost their lives in the fire that destroyed the Sacred Heart…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →£10,000 Fire Damage. Man Rescues Wife from Roof. MELBOURNE
One of the most destructive fires in Korumburra for many years broke out in buildings at the corner of Bridge and Commercial Streets, owned by Mr. A. R Swanson, between…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Minister Is Again Under Fire His Views on Employee Aspect of Coy. Speech in House
THE Minister for Works and Local Government, Mr. Spooner, re-entered the witness-box when the Royal Commission resumed yesterday, and was subjected to an intensive cross-examination by Mr. Sheahan, counsel for the Leader of the Opposition…
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