Big Fire Business Block Suffers £20,000 Damage Brisbane
The boarders and staff sleeping in Tattersall'a Hotel, Chinchilla, which is about 150 miles from Brisbane, had narrow escapes when a fire swept…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
601 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 31
Midnight Blaze Fire in Anstey Street
Cessnock Fire Brigade was called out, at 11.45 last night, to a fire in a five roomed weatherboard cottage in Anstey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Blaze Cottage Badly Damaged
A five-roomed weatherboard cottage in Austey-street, Cessnock, was partially destroyed by fire last night. The brigade received the call about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Queensland Town
Boarders and staff asleep in Tattersall's Hotel, Chinchilla, which is about 150 miles from Brisbane, had narrow escapes early on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heroic Nurses £3500 Hospital Fire
More than 100 patients had narrow escapes when a fire destroyed three wards, the kitchen, store room and pantry, and caused damage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Logs Destroyed by Fire Empty Kerosene Tins and Rags Found
Huge logs, weighing 200 tons, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday night at Plumpton, near Rooty Hill. Residents who fought the blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire-fighter Started Fires a Strange Story
The strange story of a well-known fighter starting fires and then helping to extinguish them was told at Melbourne when Henry Frank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Cessnock Cessnock
A grass fire in a vacant allotment In North avenue. Cessnock, engaged the attention of the Cessnock Fire Brigade about 5.30 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outbreak of Fire Singleton
A call was received by the singleton Fire Brigade from the Convent, yesterday morning. It was thought that the fence around the Convent was on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Menace N.R.M.A. Guides as Rangers
With a view to furthering the work of bush fire prevention, N.R.MA. Guides are to be appointed honorary rangers under the Bush Fires Act…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Inquiry Postponed
The inquiry into the cause of a fire at a house owned and occupied at Kearsley by William Dever, which had been set down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter-st. Fire Newcastle
A fire in a shop in Hunter-street, adjacent to the Surand Theatre, in the lunch hour to-day for a while threatened the theatre but the prompt action of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Discovery of Lost Man Sitting Before Fire. Sydney
George Jackson, 30, who was lost yesterday during a shooting expedition near Camden district, was found by searchers to-day sitting before a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lost in Bush Bitterly Cold Night Found Near Fire Sydney
After being lost, for 16 hours in bitterly cold weather at Silverdale, near Wallacia, George Jackman, 30, of Camden, was found by rescuers early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flying Bullets Big Blaze at Molong £10,000 Damage Sydney
Doing £10,000 damage, a fire this morning destroyed Nancarrow's store at Molong and threatened the Bank of New South Wales and a produce…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Fire at Molong. £10,000 DAMAGE. Molong
Nancarrow's general store at Molong was destroyed by fire early this morning, and the Bank of New South Wales and an adjoining produce store were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brisbane Blaze Brisbane
The showrooms of the Queensland Forestry Department, in George-street, Brisbane, were gutted by fire. Samples of almost every known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Store Destroyed Blaze at Neath NEATH
A general store, owned ami occu-pied by Hugh Hinton, in Mainron.l. NeatH, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The blaze first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News of the Day Graso Fire
AN area of grass off James-street, West Maitland, was swept by fire last night. The West Maitland Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blaze in Brewery Sydney
Portion of the third floor of Tooth's brewery, Balfourst., city., was damaged by a fire which broke out late yesterday. Firemen quickly…
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