Quelling Fires Large Army Firefighters SYDNEY
Fire fighters are still working desperately to quell the bushfires which are threatening valuable property at Canberra…
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Fires & bushfires, 1932
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Fire Statistics Sydney Records
A. return made available by the Board of Fire Commissioners shows that during 1931 the metropolitan brigades answered 2613 fire calls as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ice-house Fire Hotel Toronto Outbreak £200 Damage Toronto
When a fire broke out in the icehouse of the Hotel Toronto yesterday afternoon, it caused damage estimated at about £200. A short circuit in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BUSHFIRES 20,000 Sheep Perish Riverina Suffers
Bushfires have been responsible for much damage to pastoral country and large numbers of sheep have districts in the western and Riverine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swept by Flames Bushfires Spreading Many Sheep Perish Sydney, Saturday. Fierce bushfires are still raging in the West and South, and large numbers of valuable sheep have perished. Wide areas of grassland on station properties have suffered heavily
Canberra yesterday became the chief danger centre, Fanned by a fierce westerly wind, the flames threatened to extend to the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Western Districts Swept Stern Fight Near Cobar
Bush ana grass fires, which have swept the western districts during the past week, continued with relentless fury yesterday. Hundreds of men and women from all parts of the district and from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Devastating Bush Fires Now Controlled Heroic Fights Sydney
During the week-eng the heroic efforts of hundred of fire-fighters were successful in checking the extensive bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blaze on 90-Miles Front Abandoned by Fighters. Sydney
A message was received from Cobar district this morning stating the Paddingten fire was now on a 90-miles front, and had to be abandoned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unusual Car Smash Brakes Were on Fire
An unusual accident occurred on the Lower Moonbl Range during a blinding hailstorm late yesterday aternoon. A motor car containing five passengers going from Uralla to Tamworth caught fire, and striking a rock on the side of a bank, turned completely over. One of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fierce Fire Lithgow Power Plant Lights Fail
A disastrous fire which yesterday threatened to destroy the huge power plant of he Railway Department at Lithgow,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Wins 90-Mile Front Fight Stops Sydney
A message received from the Cobar district this morning stated that the Paddington fire is now on a 90-mile…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Hot" Locality Twice Burnt Out; Twice Uninsured
Mr. Harold Means, tonsorial artist, who was one of the tenants of Brown's Buildings in Main-street destroyed by fire on the morning of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Fires
The sympathy of the people generally will go out to residents of those stricken western districts in which the fire-fiend holds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Holiday Fires Two Outbreaks
There was a time when it became a rule for the Cessnock firemen to anticipate a fire or fires about New Year time. Year after year the end…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Year's Fires a Quiet Year
There were 29 calls, of fire in the Cessnock area for the year 1931. While 23 were actual fires, there were six false alarms. The largest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Fire Causes £7000 Damage BRISBANE
When a big fire occurred yesterday at Bowen the main business center of the town was partly destroyed, and damage of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country Fire Parkes Outbreak Heavy Damage Sydney
A disastrous fire broke out in the business centre of Parkes this morning. MoGlynn and Company's big general store was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Fiend Continues Its Path of Ruin Sweeps on Near Town Big Damage Sydney, Tuesday."
The bush fires south of Bourke are extending east and west. The fire in the eastern quarter is expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Late News. Daring Robberies. Awful Fires in the West Spreading. Position Hopeless. Civil Servants' Salaries. India—government's Firm Action. Associations Declared Unlawful. London
It was announced to-day that the "Southern Star," with the Australian mails, will leave Hamble Aerodrome on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Muswellbrook Chronicle Tuesday, January 5, 1932. HOPELESS. Fire Menace in West. Mount Hope in Danger Holdings Abandoned. Sydney
Fires in the west are still extending. South of Bourke, the fires are expected to reach the railway line to-day…
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