£10,000 FIRE Sydney Service Station 22 Cars Damaged. Sydney
Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which gutted Dalgety's service station at Woolloomooloo early this morning…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
364 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 19
Kerosene Caught Fire
Ernest Veech, of Wellington, was severely burned about the face when he accidentally set alight to kerosene in the tank of a tractor, with which he…
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In a huge trench on the town common near Carshalton, Surrey, England, a blazing bonfire is burning. The flames prey upon seven tons of oaken…
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Although the old adage, "Where's there's smoke, there's fire," still holds good, it went very close to being disproved by an incident at The Junction…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Harwood Fire In Literary Institute Caused by Rat? Constable's Prompt Action. Harwood
A rat is believed to have been the cause of a fire which damaged the Harwood Literary Institute last night. Prompt action by Constable A. S…
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Mr. Maurice James, of Dudgeon's lane, Bangalow, was awakened about 3 a.m. on Sunday by the incessant blasts from a railway engine, the crew of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Talkies "Love Under Fire."
Loretta Young and Den Ameche will lead the cast in the comedy drama, "Love Under Fire," at the Garden Theatre this evening. The story…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Talkies "Love Under Fire."
To-night at the Garden Theatre the comedy dra[?], "Love Under Fire," featuring Don Ameche and Loretta Young as the stars, will be presented…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Clothes on Fire Escape From Plane R.A.A.F. Crash At Frampton Aircraftman's Evidence Cootamundra
Leading Aircraftsman Henry Raymond Banford Fitzgerald, at an inquiry by the District Coroner, Mr. Reneham, to-day, into the death of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Realistic Electric Coal Fire
A unique electric coal are, with a realistic rising flame and smoke effect, in which all the natural effects of "dancing firelight" are preserved, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Bonville
A cottage owned by Mr. L. C. Mackay, of Sawtell, was destroyed by fire at Bonville last Friday night. It was occupied by Mr. Sid. Martin, who lost…
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Tram passengers from Adamstown mostly bound for the Sports Ground to attend the Eucharistic Congress session, were thrown into a state of excitement…
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Believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion among bales of wool and bags of zinc oxide, a fire broke out in number one hold of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in School Nuns Interrupted in Prater
Nuns of the sisterhood of St. Joseph had to leave the chapel in which they were at their prayers, when fire broke out close to them in St. Joachim's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fifteen Dead in Big Fire in Egypt. Cairo
Fifteen bodies were recovered from the ruins of 900 houses destroyed by fire in two neighboring villages in Lower Egypt…
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The home of Mr. Albert Edward Palmer, a returned soldier settler, of Dyraaba Arm, was destroyed by fire, on Wednesday. The family escaped in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Armidale
Damage estimated at over £300 was caused by a fire which destroyed a shed and convents on the property of Geo[?] Genge, on the Long Swamp road, about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires Near Warwick
A fire-fighting party, organised by Cr. H. Warfield (chairman or the Allora Shire Council) saved thousands of acres of winter pasture when grass…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£20,000 DAMAGE Fire At Chinchilla Sleepers' Narrow Escape. Brisbane
Guests and the staff, asleep in Tattersall's Hotel, at Chinchilla, about 150 miles from Brisbane, had a narrow escape from death early to-day when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hospital Fire Heroic Scenes in W.A. Nurses Rescue Patients 100 in Grave Danger Kalgoorlie
More than 100 patients had narrow escapes when a fire gutted three wards, the kitchen and pantry, causing damage estimated at more than…
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