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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
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A decrease in the number of fires in the Maitland and Kurri Kurri districts is revealed by the fire brigade returns fop the Maitland The Went Maitland Brigade received 20 calls during the year 12 being to fires one a false alarm one a chimney and three out of the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out in a refrigerator at the home of Mr. Hancock at Corona-street, Hamilton, last evening. The refrigerator was damaged, and walls…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire caused damage estimated at £2000 in a large brick building at St. Peters, occupied by Slack Bros, garage proprietors, and John Leach,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A weatherboard cottage in Norton-street was destroyed by fire. The occupants Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and family were away on holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the year the Cessnock Fire Bridge answered 33 calls and in the course of these calls and practice travelled 408 miles. The length of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although they were called out to eight fires during the past year, the Kurri Kurri Fire Brigade were fortunate in that they were not called…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early last Sunday morning an outbreak of fire occurred at the residence of Mr. William Richardson, 34 O'Brien-street, West Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The injuries received by Mrs. Ivy Carr, wife of Mr. John Carr, who was killed when a wall collapsed during the recent fire at Bakers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire which may have had mora serious consequences was discovered at the home of Mr. B. Brazier, Odd-Street Horseshoe Bend, West…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the early hours of Wednesday morning Cessnock fire brigade was called out to a fire in a five-roomed weatherboard cottage owned and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During burning-off operations on Balgownie Station, the property of Mr C. Wood, a few miles from Curlewis, on Wednesday morning, the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the climax of a series disastrous tenement-house fires in the past few months, which have taken many lives, a building in a croweded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Despite the fact that it was, raining heavily, the Creswick Fire Station was burned to the ground after having been struck by lightning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While tenants in adjoining crofts in the lonely island of Flotta, Scapa Flow, slept soundly, an aged brother and sis ter, John Simpson, 77, and Jessie Simp…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →One of the most destructive fires in Ballarat for many years occurred early to-day, when two shops, a garage, and two adjoining houses were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District Officer L. C. Hurley, 52, Newcastle districts fire chief, suffered an injured to the right shoulder, abrasions to both hands and the right leg,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Frances Chapman, aged 8 years, daughter of Mr. Richard Chapman, of Haka, was severely burnt about, the baok and thighs and bands when her…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An increase to 5d a loaf, and 9½d for two loaves over the counter, came into operation for bread in the great…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The evidence was insufficient to show how the fire started; said the Coroner after an inquiry into the death of Lee Alexander Blck, aged three months,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As a result of a fire, which, it is thought, started about 3.30 o'clock an Sunday morning, hundreds of pounds worth of…
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