Mosquito Burner Causes Fire
A mosquito coil left burning in a front room is believed to have started a fire which practically destroyed a six-roomed dwelling at Bott street,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1936
477 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 24
House Destroyed Fire at Brooklana. CORAMBA,Tuesday
On Monday morning last at 3 o'clock a fire broke out at the residence of Mr. T. T. Campbell, of Brooklana. Mr. Campbell, who is manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£10,000 DAMAGES Spectacular Fire Colliery Workshop Destroyed. Newcastle
The biggest and most spectacular fire in the history of Catherine Hill Bay completely destroyed the workshops of the Wallarah colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Board Returns 5032 Metrop. Alarms Country Districts, 1463. SYDNEY
A report issued by the secretary of the Fire Board, Mr. Webb, to-day showed that there were 5032 fire alarms in the metropolitan area…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fierce Grass Fire Families Flee for Safety. Melbourne
Nearly 1000 acres of grass country on Alexandria road, two miles from Yea, were burnt to-day by fire, and several families were forced to flee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →House on Fire Dog Wakens Master
While Mrs. Cooper, and family (Rock Valley) were on holiday with Mrs. Cooper's sister at Brunswick, Mr. Cooper slept on the verandah at his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mosquito Stick Starts Fire at Mullumbimby
The customary Sunday's peace in Mullumbimby was disturbed on Sunday afternoon by the vigorous ringing of the fire bell as the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Popoff and Taneff Expelled By Communists Reichstag Fire Trial. Moscow
The "Comintern International" has published the Bulgarian Communist party's decision to expel M. Popoff and M. Taneff, the Reichstag fire trial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Barn Busby's Flat Outbreak
A quantity of fodder was destroyed when the barn of Mr. T. S. Cole, Busby's Flat, caught fire, prompt attention to the outbreak preventing it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Family Murdered House Set on Fire. St. John (N.b.)
Footprints in the snow to-day provided the only clue to the slaying of Philip Lake, his wife, and two children. Their house was set on fire to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bellingen Fire Alarm
Bellingen narrowly escaped a big blaze in its main street last week. Mr. Albert Vale, who recently purchased Mr. A. E. Wunderlich's boot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycle on Fire
The fire brigade was called out and there was general commotion at Bellingen last Sunday when a motor cycle belonging to Mr. Alf Golding, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Fire Chief. Sydney
Deputy Chief Officer C. D. A. Richardson was today appointed Chief Officer of Fire Brigades, in succession to Mr. G. Grimmond, who has retired…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General Walked Into Fire
June Donovan, 18 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Donovan, of Warwick, Kempsey, walked into a fire at South West Rocks (Kempsey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire -Flies' Air Trip in Matchbox
The smallest individual item of cargo ever carried by the Air Lines of Australia aeroplanes went south recently when Pilot J. McLaughlin carried a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Dorrigo Wonderful Save Navin's Building Damaged
At about 10 p.m. on Sunday. December 29, residents were drawn from bed, or the fireside, by the sound of the fire bell. It was soon apparent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trapped by Fire Man Dies After Rescue Blaze in Sydney. Sydney
Rescued by firemen from a blazng smoke-filled bedroom on the first stony of a house at Newtown last night, George Macks (33), who was bunt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire After Burglary Sydney Shop Damaged. Sydney
Shortly before a fire broke out in a leather goods shop at Rozelle, this afternoon, the store was broken into. While firemen were fighting the blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Timber Mill Fire £10,000 Damage in N.Z. AUCKLAND
Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a spectacular fire in a timber mill at Port Ahuriri, Napier. The plant and a large quantity of dressed timber…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →House Destroyed by Fire
While the occupants were at the Kyogle pictures on Friday night, a fire destroyed a five-roomed cottage on a dairy farm on the Wyangarie road…
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