Less Fires Metropolitan Report Year's Outbreak
During the year 2848 fires were recorded hi Sydney and suburbs. Water used to extinguish the fires totalled almost 7,500,000 gallons…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
601 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 31
Old House Destroyed by Fire Much Damage
One of East Maitland's oldest houses, that owned by Messrs. Fred and John Dinter, in Little William-street, East Maitland, was almost completely…
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THREE rooms of an unoccupied weatherboard cottage at Paxton, the property of the executors of the late Mr. Arthur Purely, were destroyed by…
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Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which swept four large business premises in Gladstone today. Incendiarism is suspected…
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Five premises were destroyed by fire yesterday. The fire broke out in the warehouse of H. and J. Friend Ltd., which was gutted. A Jeweller's shop, a…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called upon to extinguish three grass fires in different parts of the town to-day. Although there were houses in the vicinity of the…
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A FIRE among a quantity of rubbish spread through dry grass and destroyed an outbuilding at the rear of Messrs. Swan, Murray and…
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The heat wave continues, and after a blistering day yesterday there was no relief during the night. The Cessnock Fire…
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The fire brigade was called out to fight bush and grass fires in the suburbs, and although at many places property was in danger, every building threatened by the…
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Station Officer J. F. Drivers, in charge of the Cessnock fire area, reports that during 1937 there were 31 fire calls and 24 fires. The biggest…
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About 30 firemen from five brigades, assisted by passers-by, fought for an hour and a half a fire which broke out early yesterday in the…
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In the early hours of last Sunday morning there were two mysterious outbreaks of fire in an unoccupied house at Francis-street, Paxton…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called upon to extinguish another grass fire to-day The outbreak was just off the Allandale road in the [?] of the Cessnoor…
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At the Coroner's inquiry at Manilla, into a fire at the residence of C. Davis, of Manilla, on December 31, Detective-Sergeant C. J. Delaney,…
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Six prisoners who acted as fire-fighters in Parramatta Gaol on Christmas Eve are to receive special rewards…
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The Ice Works and the Port Stephens Canning Factory at Pindimar were totally destroyed by fire on Friday, 31st Dec. The manager, Mr. F. Lyall…
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The Maitland Fire Brigade was called out this afternoon to quell all out-break in about three acres of grass in Carrington-street, Horseshoe Bend,…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called out to extinguish a small grass fire in Subiaco-Avenue this morning. The outbreak was checked before any…
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When his car skidded on and overturned in Mann-street, Gosford, on Friday afternoon, Alfred White, aged 83, of Point Frederick, Gosford, the…
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An outbreak of fire occurred in the timber yard at J. Croll & Sons' Sawmill, Dungog, on Saturday afternoon last. A stack of firewood timber was…
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