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Illawarra · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1924

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New Fire Stations

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 October 1924 · page 3

A new fire station has been completed at Thirroul and builders are on the final stages of a similar building at Bulli. At the meeting of Bulli Shire…

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Fire Brigade for Corrimal

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 October 1924 · page 11

At a meeting held at Corrimal on Tuesday night, and presided over by the Mayor (Ald. Pettingell), the question of the formation of a fire brigade was…

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New Fire Stations

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 October 1924 · page 10

A new Fire Station building has been completed in Thirroul and also in Bulli. At the meeting of the Bulli Shire…

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Motor Car on Fire

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 31 October 1924 · page 2

At 9.5 p.m. on Wednesday night a call was received at the Wollongong Fire Station to go to Bourke Street. Captain Gleeson found on arrival at the…

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Bridge on Fire

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 7 November 1924 · page 8

The new motor fire engine for the Bulli Shire Council arrived on Monday, and was quickly brought into action. Soon after his arrival at his office next…

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Big Fire at Port Kembla

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 7 November 1924 · page 16

A disastrous fire broke out at Wentworth street, Port Kembla, at 1.30 a.m. to-day, the damage being estimated at £2000…

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Fire at Port Kembla. Need for Motor Engine Emphasised

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 7 November 1924 · page 2

At 1.30 a.m. this morning a fire broke out in the shop in Wentworth Street, Port Kembla, occupied by Mr. George White, hairdresser and tobacconist, and…

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Bulli Shire Progress. New Fire Stations. Motor Engine at Bulli

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 14 November 1924 · page 7

November 7th, 1924, might be recorded as a date associated with an opoch in the progress of Thirroul and Bulli-Woonona districts. Exceedingly…

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Bulli Fire District

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 December 1924 · page 10

At the Bulli Shire Council meeting on Monday a detailed statement from the Board of Fire Commissioners was read which revealed the estimated…

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Fire at Wollongong

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 December 1924 · page 2

Captain Gleeson received a call at the Wollongong Fire Station at 4.55 p.m. on Wednesday to promises in Crown Street, occupied by Mr. Passlow,…

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Fire at Dapto. Worldon's Store Destroyed

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 December 1924 · page 10

Dapto experienced its first big fire early last Saturday morning, when the drapery and grocery business conducted by Mr. J. Worldon was completely…

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