Police Fire at Escapee
MELBOURNE, Monday. -- A policeman fired a shot this morning at an escaping prisoner who broke away from his escort…
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Fireman Crushed Speeding to Fire
KATOOMBA, Monday.--Raymond Salmond (21), of Hazelbrook, was crushed against a tree when a truck speeding with…
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KATOOMBA, Monday.--Raymond Salmond (21), of Hazelbrook, was crushed against a tree when a truck speeding with…
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Flames burst from the engineroom hatch of a high-speed naval barge after an explosion aboard the boat at…
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KATOOMBA, Monday.--Raymond Salmond (21), of, Hazelbrook, was crushed against a tree when a truck speeding with…
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NEW YORK.--The Easton (Philadelphia) fire department now is equipped with a 1OOft. ladder pipe, capable of fighting a blaze atop the…
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The barge of Rear-Admiral H. B. Farncombe, Commander of the Australian Squadron, caught fire at Man O' War Steps, Farm Cove, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Naked Man Prayed in English Factory Fire
LONDON, Tuesday.--Surrounded by . leaping flames, a, young naked man was found kneeling in prayer before a crucifix by firemen who smased…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--surrounded leaping flames, a young naked man was found kneeling in prayer before a crucifix by firemen who smased…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--Surrounded by leaping flames, a young naked man was found kneeling in prayer before a crucifix by firemen who smased…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--Surrounded by leaping flames, a. young naked man was found kneeling in prayer before a crucifix by firemen who smased…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--Surrounded by leaping flames, a young naked man was found kneeling in prayer before a crucifix by firemen who smased…
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KURE, March 18 (A.A.P.). —One Sydney man was burned to death and two other Sydney men and one Tasmanian are…
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The Board of Fire Commsisioners has notified Sutherland Council that the matter of fire protection for Jannali has been reviewed and a hose box…
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Underground gear in a section of northern colliery Pacific is being removed by men working round the clock to beat a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Car Fire Holds Up Bridge Traffic
Traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge was delayed yesterday afternoon when a R.A.N. ambulance waggon caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SCIRENS screech through the night. Brass helmets glitter under the street lights, great serpents of carivas hose criss-cross the footways. There are shouts and crashes, crowds and policemen, smoke and steam, the roar and the glare of flames, the acrid smell of wet charred woodwork. Thousands of pounds, maybe life and limb, could be lost in an hour or less — through someone's carelessness. Carelessness Lit Those Fires
THERE was a fire call every 53 minutes somewhere in New South Wales last year. Through fires, 13…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Schoolgirls Calm In Big College Blaze
Fifty girls marched calmly out of smoke - filled dormitories and bedrooms when a fire broke out in the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood, early today. A few minutes later blazing…
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A FIRE broke out on the fifth floor of a building in Pier. St., Haymarket, this morning, when a vat of plastic solution burst into flames in…
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A FIRE broke out on the fifth floor of a building in Pier St., Haymarket, this morning, when a vat of plastic solution burst into flames in…
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