Fire Brigade Answers False Alarm
At about 8.30 on Saturday night the local Fire Brigade received a. call, the informant stating that there was an outbreak of fire at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1941
357 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 18
False Alarm of Fire Singleton
Singleton Fire Brigade was summoned to a false, alarm fire in George-st.. on Saturday night. The alarm bad been sounded from a street alarm box…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires Dancer From Charcoal Burners
The Chief Secretary (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) to-day urged that the utmost care should be exercised by persons engaged in producing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Hazards Advisory Committee’s Circular Control Measures
“you wull recollect that last year the Bush Fires Advisory Committee Circularised council on the Question of their taking…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Explosion at Gas Works Three Men Killed When Fighting Fire
Three men were killed and three others injured in an explosion which occurred when they were fighting a fire at Brighton (Vic.) gas works on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Fires in Ichang (A.a.p. Service) New York Oct. 8
Chinese -armies have entered Ichang, treaty port on the Yangtseter River, as a result of a counter offensive, a military spokesman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at West Cessnock. Four-roomed Cottage Destroyed
On Wednesday night a four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Margaret-street, West Cessnock, owned and occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Astonished Nazis Trawler’s Accurate Fire GIBRALTAR Oct 10
“The Germans were astonished that such a shall ship could sink so powerful a submarine,” said Lieutenant Commander Callaway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Foam for R.A.A.F. MELBOURNE
Heavy foam made from liquorice and soda is being used by the R.A.A.F. to [?] petrol and oil fires. Officials of the Department of Air…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Docks Attacked at Boulogne Large Fires Left Burning
Blenheims, strongly escorted by fighters, attacked the docks at Boulogne yesterday. Many bursts were seen on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.A.F. Again Over Germany Large Fires at Emden
Planes of the Bomber Command on Saturday night attacked Emden and other objectives in North-west Germany, and left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2000 JOBLESS Fire At Rubber Works (A.A.P. Service)
A large fire destroyed six buildings containing huge stocks of defence materials at the Firestone Rubber Company’s premises leaving 2000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Small Fire at Aberdare. Blaze Extinguished by Inmates
A small outbreak of fire which was subdued before it reached any Extensive proportions occurred on Saturday night at a house in Greta-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Insurance Complaint Of Property Owner
A letter from Mr. N. C. Willis was read at the meeting of the West Maitland Council last night in which he referred to the injured of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Menace Hot Clinker From Producer Gas Units. Mr. Nott's Inquiry
Attention has been drawn in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. R. B. Nott (Liverpool Plains) to the danger of bush fires being caused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Menace. Hot Clinker From Producer Gas Units. Mr. Nott's Inquiry
Attention has been drawn in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. R. B. Nott (Liverpool Plains) to the danger of bush fires being caused during the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Odessa Falls To Axis Troops City Devastated by Fire and Flames
The Germans claim that the Axis troops have entered Odessa. The Russian admission that the Germans on the central front have broken through the Soviet defences in one sector was supplemented last night by further evidence of the extreme…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Capture of Odessa is Claimed Fires Raging in City Heavy Pressure On Moscow(AUSTRALIAN Associated Press) London October 16
The Russian admission in the early morning report that the Germans on the central front had broken through the Soviet defences in one sector was supplemented to-night by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clinkers Caused Bush Fire
A recent bushfire in Inverell district was found to have been caused by hot clinkers from a producers gas unit being dumped on the roadside,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Insurance at Newcastle
The Greater Newcastle Council wrote to the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce advising that at the request of the Fire Underwriters’…
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