Fire fan
Firemen in Peoria, Illinois, noticed that their mascot, a 14-year-old boy, often…
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2,850 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 143
15 burned to death in forest blaze (Firebug Blamed)
NEW YORK, Sat.--Fifteen firefighters were burned to death last night in a forest fire near Willows, California. United States forestry officials…
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NEW YORK., July ll (A.A.P.).— Fifteen men were burnt to death on Thursday night in a forest…
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NEW YORK, July ll (A.A.P.).—At least 10 separate fires, believed to have been started by arsonists, broke out almost simultaneously last night in big buildings in Fresno,…
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Two women saved an elderly man lyind seraiconscious on the floor with his pyjamas alight in…
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BUNDABERG, Sun. -- A fifty-three-years-old widow, Mrs. Dorothy Mabel Pendry, died in a fire which…
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WILLOWS (Calif.), Sunday. -- A man deliberately started a forest fire, in which 15…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. —A man threw petrol on the verandah of a house in the Melbourne suburb of…
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NEW YORK, Mon.--A 26-years-old man today confessed he had started the forest fire near Willows, California, which last Friday killed 15…
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LONDON, Tuesday (D.M.W.C.). -- Harold Ernest Markwick, who stole 2s 6d from a fellow…
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LONDON, Tuesday (D.M.W.C.). -- Harold Ernest Markwick, who stole 2s 6d from a fellow…
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LONDON, Tuesday (D.M.W.C.). -- Harold Ernest Markwick, who stole 2s 6d from a fellow…
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LONDON, Tuesday (D.M.W.C.).-- Harold Ernest Markwick, who stole 2s 6d from a fellow…
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LONDON, Tuesday, (D.M.W.C.). -- Harold Ernest Markwick, who stole 2s 6d from a fellow…
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LONDON, Tuesday (D.M.W.C.).-- Harold Ernest Markwick, who stole 2s 6d from a fellow…
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LONDON, Tuesday (D.M.W.C.). -- Harold Ernest Markwick, who stole 2s 6d from a fellow…
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A fire which broke out yesterday in the kindergarten section of the West Kingston Methodist Sunday School in…
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An open inquiry is being sought into the purchase of fire engines by the N.S.W. Board of…
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NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union will press for a government inquiry into the…
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A lorry caught fire and overturned and high tension wires were brought down in a collision in Boronia Road,…
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