False Fire Alarms Decrease
Thirteen false alarms experienced last year have caused us undue Inconvenience," a Wollongong Fire Brigade officer stated this week…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Fire in Lounge Room
To save a fire in the lounge room of a four-roomed weatherboard cottage at Gwynneville from spreading to other parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →False Fire Alarms Police Will Take Action
"If the culprits setting off mechanical fire alarms falsely in Wollongong are apprehended, the police will strietly enforce the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain Declares War on the Fire Menace
Fifteen hundred lives are lost in fires in Britain overy year and damage to the extent of £10,000,000 is done by them. In an attempt to save these lives and prevent this damage, the United Kingdom Government has set up a Fire Research Organisation consisting of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Presentation to Former Fire Captain
Mr. T. Connolly, who was captain of the Bulli Volunt[?] Fire Brigade for 25 years until his retirement last October owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Corrimal Has Fire Siren
A new fire siren has been installed at the Corrimal Fire Station. It has replaced the old bell type alarm. Of American design and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Found Fire Under House
When he arrived home on Easter Monday night Mr. Ronald John Carroll, of 7 Wilford street, Corrimal, noticed flames coming from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →For Trial on Arson Charge Attempt to Set Fire to House
An attempt to sot fire to a dwelling house occupied by R. J. Carroll, 7 Wilford st., Corrimal, oh April 3, resulted in Leslie Clive Cronan (31), being charged at the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, with arson…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Much Damage in Fire at Coniston
Overheating of fat in a Vat at a fish shop in Auburn St., Conston, early on Friday night is believed to be the cause of a fire which caused…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Shops on Fire Estimated Damage, £500
A fire, which broke out in a fish shop at 123 Auburn st., Coniston, last Friday evening, spread to the adjoining building, comprising a post office…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Steelworks Truck Destroyed
Firemen of the Port Kembla Fire Brigade fought a fire for nearly three hours at the Steelworks, Port Kembla, on Wednesday of last week, before…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Brigade in Changed Role
Port Kembla Fire Brigade was called to the E.R. and S. Works on Monday to pump out a flooded coke pit 15 feet deep, 12 feet wide, and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire Safety For Factory
The first installation in Wollongong of automatic fire sprinklers and alarm system has been affected by Australia Silknit Ltd in thier…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Firemen Fight Bush Fire For Four Hours
Panned by Tuesday night's gale, a bush fire on two acres of vacant ground at the corner of Mangerton Road and Hillview Avenue, West…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Kerosene Storehouse On Fire
A small wooden storehouse for kerosene at the rear of Kee's shop 322 Crown Street, Wollongong, caught alight on Friday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Set Fire to Building, Police Allege
On a charge of maliciously [?] fire to a building, the prop[?] Lysaghts Ltd., and occupied by [?]ille Hill, at the Illowra Camp [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Fires — Same Place
The Wollongong Fire Brigade was called out twice within a few hours on Monday to extinguish fires which broke out in an old, disused cooler…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Auburn Street Wall Allaze
The old cooling chamber of the Riverstone Meat Co's disused building in Auburr Street. Wollongong, caught alight on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Radio and Bush Fires
The New South Wales Bush Fires Advisory Committee is a body, one of whose primary aims is the promotion of a bush fire consciousness in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Woman Burnt While Fighting Fire
Mrs. Winsome M. Lario suffered second degree burns on Monday while fighting a fire in the laundry at her home in McGrath St…
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