Fire Causes Black Out at Wauchope
Wauchope will probably be without electric power or light for several days. The town was plunged into darkness on Wednesday night when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1938
601 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 31
Nurses Extinguish Fire
While 40 children slept on in a dormitory at the Watt Street Mental Asylum, Newcastle, on Friday night, the nursing staff extinguished a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burned on Face and Head Girl's Hair on Fire
When her hair caught fire while she was standing in front of a stove, Joan Pitt, 10 years, of Goulburn, was severely burned on her face and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thieves in Hotel Licensee's Wife Fires Six Shots. Melbourne
The Derrimutt Hotel, near Sunshine, was entered by thieves early this morning. They were in the act of removing a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Festival at Show Time
Of all the nights for a residence to catch on fire in Singleton there will be no more opportune time in 1938 than the second night of the N.A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Italian Guards Fire on Two Frenchmen Serious Frontier Incident
The French Foreign Office has ordered a strict inquiry into a serious Franco-Italian frontier incident on Tuesday in the region of the Udine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bitter Campaign for N.z. Elections Opposition Opens Fire
The opening skirmishes in what promises to be the most bitter election campaign in New Zealand history are already being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mysterious School Fires "Youth with Warped Intellect"
"The only conclusion I can come to is that the four fires were caused by a youth with a warped intellect. The writing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trapped by a Fire Three Children Burned to Death
Three children, trapped by a fire which destroyed their parents' home at Werombi, 19 miles from Camden, on Saturday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trapped in Fire Three Children Perish Camden Tragedy Sydney
Trapped by flames which destroyed their parents' home at Werombi, 19 miles from Camden, on Saturday night, three children…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fell Into Fire Wollongong
Gladys Pollock, 5, whose parents live in a camp at Mount Ousley Road, Fairy Meadow, on the northern side of Wollongong, fell into an open fire at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Destroyed by Fire Taree
The Tinonee Post Office, a brick building more than 50 years old, was destroyed by fire Tinonee has no fire brigade, but Constable Wilson, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fell Into Open Fire Child Dies From Burns
Gladys Pollock, five years, whose parents live in a camp at Mount Ousley Road, Fairy Meadow, on the northern side of Wollongong, fell into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CAMP-FIRE Earliest Form of Light Interesting Facts
Light through the ages! Who lit the first smoking torch? Who moulded the first clay lamp? Who fitted it with strands of flax to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Trapped in Blaze Garage Worker Burned SYDNEY
Denis O'Brien, 30, of Bondi, was burned and suffered severely from shock when a fire broke out in a car which he was polishing in a closed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Postal Van Fire
At the Central Police Court this week Stanley Thomas Andrew Nicholls, 18, was charged with having maliciously…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire and Frozen Taps Extremes at Gaffney's Creek
Extremes were experienced at Graffney's Creek (Vic.) when a fire' broke out in an old hotel on Wednesday. Firefighters tried to quell the blaze,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lucky Esc Ape Mrs. Lang in Danger Car on Fire Sydney
While seated in a motor car, Mrs. Lang, wife of the leader of the Opposition, had a narrow escape from serious burns…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire Presbyterian Manse Destroyed Big Early Morning Blaze
At about 3.30 a.m. this Tuesday the ringing of the fire bell brought many residents of Dungog from their beds, and they were not long in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blaze at Manly Sydney
A shop of two floors, occupied by Messra. Cockell and Whitelegg, trading as Hunt and Co., auctioneers, on the southern side of The Corso, Manly,…
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