Bush Fire Area of 2000 Acres Swept SINGLETON
It is estimated that a bush fire swept over approximately 2000 acres of bush and greensland yesterday. Several fences were destroyed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
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Fire Brigade No Serious Outbreak Year’s Figures
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Liner on Fire Passengers Rescued By Warship Madrid, Dec. 31
Fire broke out in the Spanish passenger liner Cabo San Antonio (12,275 tons) when the vessel was 500 miles south of Teneriffe (Canary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Petrol Blaze Pumps Hit by Car SYDNEY
Two petrol pumps outside Alfred Conlon’s [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →450 FIRES Newcastle Statistics NEWCASTLE
Five people lost their [?] in fires in the Newcastle district during the year. The Newcastle Five Brigade was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fewer Fires Year’s Statistics For Cessnock
Figures relaced by the [?] Fire Brigade show that the [?] received during the year totalled 47, of which 39 were to fires and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →400 Killed in Forest Fire (“Mercury” Service) LONDON, January 1
A forest fire in the famous Diamond Mountains area of Korea has killed 400 persons, and is threatening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →200 VOLUNTEERS Fought Fire at Branxton. BRANXTON
A serious grass and hush fire threatened East Brauxton last night at about 10.15 o’clock. It started on the southern side of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Sweeps 20-Miles Front Great Destruction of Grazing Country. Sydney
A message from Hillston states that a terrific bush fire, which is sweeping along, a 20-miles front, lias already destroyed 70,000 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Fire Brigade. Fewer Fires Lost Year
Fewer fires occurred at Cessnock during 1939. The number of calls to the Fire Brigade was 47, of which 39 were to fires and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →70,000 Acres of Grazing Country Destroyed. Terrific Bush Fire at Hillston. Police Call for Volunteers. Sydney
A message from Hillston states that a terrific bush fire which is sweeping along a 20-mile front has already destroyed 70,000 acres of good grazing country. BURNING since Monday morning it spread with such rapidity that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School Threatened Fire Brigade's Good Save
Ere the summer is through there will doubtless be the usual crop of fires caused by sparks from the railway engines, but the first fire of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRASS-FIRE Smoke Seen for Miles
Dense smote from a grass fire on vacant lend off Tank-st., Morpeth, this morning, could he sees for miles around…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fire Menaces Home. Timely Discovery
The timely discovery of a grass fire in the backyard on Miss M. Spilsted's property in Brook-street yesterday afternoon enabled neighbors to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire on 20 Mile Front Sydney
A [?] that a [?] which [?] a [?] destroyed [?] acres [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →20 Killed in Hotel Fire (“Mercury” Service) New York, January 4
Twenty people were killed and 40 were injured when a fire destroyed the Marlborough Hotel in Minneapolis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers Help Fire Fighters at Morpeth
Members of B Company, 2nd and 10th Battalions of the 2nd A.I.F., who were at the rifle range at [?]ford yesterday with Captain Matthews,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hay on Fire Firemen’s Hard Task
A fire in a haystack at Berry Paris gave the West Maitland Fire Brigade a long job last night. The engine left the station just before [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hot at Dungog Grass Fire in Main Street DUNGOG
The ho[?]est day since the beginning of the summer season was experienced at Dungog to-day. At noon the temperature, reading…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain Helps Hillston Fire Under Control 100,000 Acres Burnt Hillston
Aided by three points of rain, which reduced the fury of the flame the men and women who, for days, have fought the bushfires, have now…
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