Firemen Kept Busy Bush and Grass Fires
Cessnook Fine Brigade had a busy day yesterday, coping with grass and bush fires. The brigade was called out…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
601 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 31
Its Okay for Sound It Can Put Out Fires and Abate Smoke Nuisance
Years ago Hiram Maxim, of machine-gun fame, was experimenting with electric are lights. One of these which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire £20,000 Damage Caused Factory Gutted Sydney
Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused when a fire gutted a two-storied factory owned by Burgess and Sons Ltd., furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tap, Tap— All the Worlds Tapping. Eleanor Powell Taps Faster Than a Machine Gun Fires. Others Tap with Hope in the Breast
Tap, tap, tap, tap. The floor boards of thousands of Australian homes are being shaken try the latest craze—tap-dancing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →City Blaze Result of Prank Narrow Escapes Sydney
A narrow escape from death was experienced by Percy Hubert Walters to-day when a fire occurred in his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Family Home Destroyed by Fire
"Tregantle," the charming old home of the Allnutt family, in the Quirindi district, is no more. Not a stick remains after a sudden and devastating fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stop Press Fire at Trundle Trundle
A fire which caused damage estimated at £7000 broke out in the engineroom of the Trundle Electric Lighting Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Brigade Question of Revenue Raymond Terrace Raymond Terrace
Doubt as to whether Raymond Terrace could support a fire brigade was expressed by an officer of the Fire Brigades Commission (Mr. Barker)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Love Locked Out Angry Husband Called Fire Brigade and Police
A Paris postman who found himself locked out of his house by his wife summoned the fire brigade and then the police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destroyed by Fire. Later. Captain and Crew All Dead. Oil Pools Led to Wreckage. Washington, Jan. 12
The giant Sikorsky flying-boat, named the Samoan Clipper, bound from Pago Pago to Auckland, New Zealand, has been destroyed by fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fence on Fire Cessnock Outbreak CESSNOCK
Cessnock Fire Brigade received a call to 12 Bridge-st., Cessnock, about 10 o'clock last night, where a fence was alight. When the brigade arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Fire City Building Gutted Narrow Escapes Sydney
Only strenuous efforts by fireman prevented a fire, which gutted the Tizzey Pty. Ltd. building in Wilmot Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Facts Prevention Better Than Cure
Has it ever occurred to you that sufficient growing, timber to have built numerous homes is destroyed every year by bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Blaze Woman Fatally Burned MELBOURNE
Mrs. H. Wells, of Hamilton, died in hospital from burns received after her clothes had caught alight at her home. Her two young sos were filling a petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deadly Fumes City Firemen In Hospital Market-street Blaze Sydney
While fighting a fire in the basement of Linden Court Arcade, in Market-street, Sydney, to-day, 20 firemen were overcome by smoke and gas. Thirteen were taken to hospital, four of them in a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boot Factory Fire Perth
Damage estimated at about £4000 was done by a fire to Weaver's boot factory, in Beaufort street, Mount Lawley. The premises and equipment were insured for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Severe Damage Rose Bay Fire SYDNEY
Severe damage was done to the premises of Rose Bay Motors Ltd., and the Austral Engineering Products Co. Ltd., which are under the one roof at Old…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Facts
Has it ever occurred to you that sufficient growing timber to have built numerous homes is destroyed every year by bush fires?…
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