False Alarm of Fire
The Central Fire Brigade, in charge of Station-Officer Brown, answered a call from the automntic fire alarm at the Globe Timber Mills at 9.25…
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Fires & bushfires, 1941
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HEROISM Soldiers Unload Under Fire To Give Comforts To Others SYDNEY, January 23
SO that their comrades would receive special Christmas comforts in the shape of hampers from Australia, a company of the A.I.F. worked under fire from enemy…
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When a Neon sign in front of Frank Grift's store caught alight at 9.34 o'clock last night, the Central Ftre Brigade had a break after much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unrest in Italy Militia Fire On Demonstrators Many Serious Disturbances New York, January 28
fascist militia tired on demonstrating striking workmen at the Lloyd Triestino workshops a Trieste, resulting in militia-men and workmen being injured and two were killed. This is reported by the Belgrade correspondent of the "New York…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Argent Street Cafe Extensive Damage
ALTHOUGH the Central Fire Brigade under District Fire Officer S. Brown made a particularly good save, extensive damage was [?] by smoke and [?]mes when a fire broke out in the Okeh Cafe, Argent Street, early this…
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Mystery surrounds the origin ot a serious lire in the Okeh Cafe in Argent Street early on Saturday morning. Considerable damage was done to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Junee
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A fire which started in some stacked hay in a paddock about two miles from Junee, destroyed telephonic and telegraphic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Derna Was A.I.F's. Longest and Sharpest Fight Victorious Battalion Under Fire For Five Days
DERNA, January 31.—The actual entry into Derna was the anti-climax to an action which was the longest and one of the sharpest the A.I.F. has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigade Officer Transferred
Sub-station officer Len Pryor, who has been in charge of the South Broken Hill Fire Brigade for the past three years, has been transferred to…
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Mr. Len Pryer, sub-station officer at the South Broken [?] Fire Brigade, has received notice of his transfer to Mortdale (a suburb of Sydney) as officer in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stop Press £2,000 Fire
ADELAIDE. — Roaring through masses of highly inflammable kapoc, fire, which caused £2,000 damage, spread with devastating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Factory Blaze £2000 Damage ADELAIDE
ROARING through masses of highly inflammable kapok, a fire which caused £2000 damage spread with devastating rapidity through the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Fleet Causes Fires At Ostend Shells Fall on Harbor Works London, February 11
Units or the Royal Navy bombarded Ostend, the second port of Belgium, early this morning, an Admiralty communique states. Salvoes fell on the harbor works, and many fires…
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Picnickers are believed to have been responsible for a Are which destroyed a sheep shelter on Munka Station, near Kinalung, about 30 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District Fire Officer Returns
"Heavy damage from the recent rains in South Australia was evident," said the District Officer of the Fire Brigade (Mr. G. Condon) today,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Sweeps Spanish City A.A.P. MADRID, February 16
A fire sweeping Santander after an explosion of on oiltanker in the harbor harbor already destroyed 200 buildings in 24 hours. This is reported to include…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Transformer On Fire
People living in the district between Sulphide, Wolfram and Cobalt Street got a severe fright last, night shortly before 11 p.m., when the electric light suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Calls
Excitement was caused in Sulphide Street last night about 10.55 o'clock when a transformer between Cobalt and Wolfram Streets caught…
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Slight fire damage was done to a transformer at the corner of Wolfram and Sulphide Streets at 8.21 o'clock, last night. The Central Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire of Revolt Is Sweeping Abyssinia A.A.P., LONDON. February 19
News of the spread of revolt comes from all over Abyssinia where a fire of revolt fanned in the west is sweeping across the uplands across the Cohjjam and…
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