Boys' Leap to Escape Fire
NEW YORK, May 17 (A.A.P.).—Three boys yesterday leaped 75 feet into a firemen's net from a burning…
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£20,000 fire guts boat club
Fire yesterday destroyed the Sydney Women's Rowing Club boatshed in Broderick…
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Firemen from headquarters and Darlinghurst last night put out a fire which started in an electrical switchboard at the…
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Chief Fire Officer E. J. Griffiths today warned of the need for care in handling and setting off…
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A woman told the Brisbane Coroner's Court yesterday she was satisfied that her mother had set herself on fire…
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LASVEGAS (Nevada), Tuesday. -- The Atomic Energy Commission staged the…
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WAGGA, Tuesday.— In the Supreme Court here to-day Wrixon Joseph Bent, manager of…
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NEW YORK, Wed.--Thirty-one firemen were injured or overcome by smoke last night fighting…
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LONDON, Wed.--Fire engines went to the House of Commons today when a faulty television set started…
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MELBOURNE, Fri. -- Hundreds of people saw two young men dash into a blazing garage at…
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MELBOURNE, Fri. -- Hundreds of people saw two young men dash into a blazing garage at…
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A RAILWAY ganger told a special sitting of the Supreme Court in Wagga this week that though he had received notification precluding him from burning off he thought it was permissible for railwaymen to burn off after sundown. He was given evidence…
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A fire, believed to have been caused by a cigarette butt, broke out on beams under No. 5 wharf. Darling…
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A fire, believed to have been caused by a cigarette butt, broke out oh beams under No. 5 wharf, Darling…
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LONDON, Saturday.--The Executive Committee of the League of Red Cross Societies yesterday unanimously passed a resolution calling on both sides to stop fighting in Korea for an agreed period during the armistice negotiations…
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LONDON, May 23 (A.A.P.). —London is becoming the world's gayest capital as Coronation decorations blossom in the spring…
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While firemen fought big bonfires in Sir John Young Crescent last night…
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Barry Beencke, 14, of Artarmon, points to a ledge from which he was rescued by Lane Cove Fire Brigade at the Northern Suburbs Brick Company's pit at Artarmon yesterday. He was stranded on the ledge, 25 feet down the 100ft side of the pit, while searching for white pigeons…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Burglars set fire to stocks of motor tubes and tyres after breaking into a panel-beating…
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Mr. Harold Raymond Brown, 61, a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, who died last…
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