Toronto Blaze Cottage Destroyed NEWCASTLE
A four-roomed cottage, with its contents, who destroyed by fire at Toronto. When Toronto Fire Brigade arrived…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
548 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 28
House on Fire Old Man' Burnt To Death MELBOURNE
When a house in which he lived by himself caught fire about midnight, William George Lappi[?] of Indigo, was burnt to death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Brigade for Dungog DUNGOG, Tuesday
Cr. R. L. Fitzgerald reported to a meeting of Wallarobba Shire to-day that he, as Mayor of the Municipality had been approached by Sergeant &…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plan to Fight Bush Fires Shire Council Appoints Deputy-captains. Equipment To Be Purchased
At its meeting yesterday the Shire Council took action to set up an organisation to deal with any outbreak of bush fires in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass Fires Dungog Home Menaced
A grass fire, which broke out on Saturday morning in a vacant allotment in Mary-street, at the rear of the Rectory, seriously menaced the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fire on Minimbah
Some 2000 acres of bush and grassland on Minimbah Station, Singleton district, were swept by fire on Saturday and Sunday of last week. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blackheath Outrage. Attempt to Destroy House. Ten Separate Fires. Sydney
During last night some unknown person or persons broke into a house at Blackheath owned by Chris. O'Rourke, horse trainer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Helps Hillston Fire Under Control. 100,000 Acres Burnt. Hillston
Aided by three points of rain, which reduced the fury of the flames, the men and women who, for days, have fought the bush fires, have now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plane on Fire Makes Forced Landing Three Flyers Injured
A report from Wellington (N.Z.) says that three officers of an ah, force bomber were badly burned and two of them critically injured on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Brigade Formed at Muswellbrook MUSWELLBROOK
At the monthly meeting of the Muswellbrook Shire Council it was decided to form the “Muswellbrook Bush. Fire Brigade.” with, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Fire Carriage Destroyed PERTH
Passengers in a sleeping carnage attached to the Perth Wiluna train woke up to find that the carnage was on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →House Destroyed Fire at Cessnock
During the early hours of this morning a house owned and occupied by Mr. Stanley Burgess, in Daniel-street, West Cessnock, was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Danger of Fire Brigade Captain's Warning
Captain S. Jones, of Dungog Fire Brigade, during the week issued a warning to residents of the town to guard with all cautiousness against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Home Destroyed Fire of Cessnock CESSNOCK
About 1.30 a.m. this morning a [?] destroyed a [?] The [?] next door had [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →French Sortie Backed by Heavy Fire (“Mercury” Service.) BERLIN, Jan 11
The official newsagency says that a French company, backed by heavy fire, broke through, the German lines east of Forbach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallarobba Shire Council Measures for Control of Bushfires Proposal for Volunteer Fighting Unit
Wallarobba Shire Council's decision at its December meeting to give the Dungog Police all the assistance it could in the event of a volunteer bushfire fighting unit being formed to cover the district was carried a further stage at Tuesday's meeting, when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Mine. Caused by Bushfire Spread Down Shaft
A smell bushfire caused an outbreak of Arc in a shaft of the discussed working of Bloomfield M[?] Coillery at East Maltland…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Week-end Fires Three Brigades Busy. Shed Damaged
East and West Maitland and Lorn Fire Brigades were each called out to fires over the week-end. The brigades gained the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News of the Day Grete Gr[?] Fire
A QUANTITY of grass was destroyed when a are broke out to a paddock adjoining the Second A.I.F. camp at Grain. Fanned by a westerly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hotel Destroyed by Fire People Dashed Out Just in Time
Guests and the staff at the Star Hotel at Wauchope dashed out of, the blazing building at 3 o'clock yesterday morning just; in time. The…
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