Big Blaze Destruction at Rabaul SYDNEY
A message from Rabaul states that a fire early this morning destroyed the store and workshops of the well-known firm of W. R. Carpenter and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1939
642 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 33
Platform Ablaze Fire on Railway NEWCASTLE
Sixty feet of decking on the railway platform at Boolaroo was destroyed by fire late yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shops Burnt Fire Fighters Foiled By Wind KEMPSEY
Despite desperate efforts of firemen, police and civilian volunteers to control it, a fire which broke out in the shopping centre did thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Rabaul Store and Warehouse Destroyed. Sydney
A message from Rabaul states that a large fire early this morning destroyed a store and workshop of the well-known firm of W. R. Carpenter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six Children Perish In Fire Wellington (N.z,)
Six Maori children, whose ages ranged from four to nine years, perished in a fire near Lake Taupo…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Thirty Years' Fire
A fire which raged for thirty years and defied all attempts to extinguish it, sounds like a fantastic romance yet this phenomenon actually took…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mysterious Fire in Store Coroner's Open Finding
The City Coroner, Mr Oram, on Wednesday returned an open finding after an inquiry into the fire in the furniture store of Kilners Pty., Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Near Wingham
Stocks of lucerne hay were destroyed by fire on W. J. Fotheringham's property near Wingham. A cart shed and harness were also destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wingham Blaze Haystack and Shed Burnt WINGHAM
Two stacks of hay and a shed were destroyed by fire on Mr. W. J. Fotheringham's Glenyarra property at Bungay, near Wingham, when sparks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Outbreak of Fire Singleton
The Singleton Volunteer Fire Brigade quickly put out a fire in Victoria Square Singleton, about midnight on Saturday. Apparently somebody lit old…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outbreak of Fire
A quantity of bedding was burned in a fire which broke out in the residence of Mr. J. Johnson in Dungog about 1 a.m. on Sunday. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Church
Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out at the rear of the old Presbyterian Church in Langstreet, Kurri Kurri. The Kurri…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Fires Outbreaks at Singleton SINGLETON
A fire broke out near a storehouse of explosives at the rear of Grainger and Falkiner's Union yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nurses Flee From Fire Condobolin
Fire destroyed the nurses' quarters at the Condobolin Hospital to-day Thirteen nurses fled in their night attire. The main hospital building was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Nurses' Quarters Inmates Escape in Night Attire. Condobolin
A fire destroyed the nurses' quarters at Condobolin Hospital to-day. Thirteen nurses fled in their night attire. The main hospital building was not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Citizens Fire on Storm Troopers Report From Danzig. Warsaw
A circumstantial report published from Danzig states that 20 storm troopers appealing from a lorry to the people to keep calm, were fired on by German…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Homes Threatened At Coal Point NEWCASTLE
Fanned by a strong south-westerly breeze, a fire which broke out on the Kilaben-Coal Point road last night, threatened a number of houses…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Kurri Fire Brigade
The Board of Fire Commissioners has notified the Kearsley Shire Council that its request that provision be made in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Narbethong Fire Mill Owner Denies Incendiarism MELBOURNE
Allegations that a sawmill at Narbethong had been deliberately set on fire during the January bushfires were denied by the owner of the mill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bellbird Blaze Home of Triplets Destroyed SYDNEY
Fire on Sunday afternoon destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Milliard, parents of triplets born in Cessnock hospital about nine months ago…
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