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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
357 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 18
For the second time in two night the Royal Air Force last night attacked the German towns of Frankfurt, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. A considerable weight of bombs was dropped on each city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire in a chimney at the Rural Bank West Maitland last night, was extinguished by firemen from the West Maitland Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A big incendiary bomb set fire to [?] destroyed, along with stock and pant, the building hosing the “Central China Daily News” at Shanghai,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A native policeman was killed by a falling wall when the British New Guinea Trading Co.’s bulk [?]tore in Port Road was, burnt to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To fight [?]e Nazi’s rain of incendiaries on Britain one thousand miles of fire-hose have been turned out since the war began by the weave[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All the official records and accounts of the administrative section of the Royal Prince Alfred. Hospital and furniture and typewriters, valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Germany's great fear of being raided on two fronts is now a reality, states the B.B.C. While the British offensive continues in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three old-age pensioners were asleep in a burning house in Moogoon road, Goondiwindi last night, when a passing motorist saw the smoke and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The State Government has asked the Federal Government for £200,000 to enable it to bring the fire-fighting services of the State to the standard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Air Ministry Revealed that the bad weather kept the bombers over Berlin a long time last night looking for targets. One…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Besides the building being partly gutted, stock valued at £1000 was damaged by a fire this morning in David Coben’s storeroom in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two more fires occurred at Cardiff late last night and early this morning. At 11.5 0 last night the local fire brigade was called to a fire in the hall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More than 100 British bombers attacked objectives in Germany again last night. One machine failed to return. The main places attacked were Bremen and Duisburg. An Air Ministry communique states “Although the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrific explosion touched off a toaring fire, which accompanied by further explosions spread destructively on the Brooklyn waterfront to-day A 1000 ton pier which was used by British ships to load supplies and the Italian ship,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Replying to criticism which followed the destruction by fire of the premises of John Burns Ltd., the Fire Superintendent said that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out early this morning in the freezer at the Riverstone Men Works. Residents helped firemen to remove…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A number of sheep are feared to have been lost and a large area of [?]ture has been destroyed by a bushfire which has been raging in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. A. E. Shoel[?] dairy officer of the Department of Commerce who is exa[?] 2,000,000 eggs which were stored in a [?] chamber which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charles Dickens was wonderfully quick about tilings little and big. He had a peculiar dread of fire. “Get a brick or two knocked out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The second, lumber yard fire in four months to destroy 1,000,000 dollars (£A312,500) worth of timber destroyed a lumber yard in Philadelphia…
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