Northern Chatter Fire at Coledale Hts
The Coledale Fire Brigade was called out last Saturday morning to a bushfire which was threatening the Bulli Main Colliery, at Coledale…
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Garden Hose Used to Extinguish Fire
Two house painters working on a Corrimal Street, Wollongong, home yesterday afternoon used a garden hose to…
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At 4.30 on Friday afternoon Wollongong Fire Brigade was called to the corner of Church and Glebe Streets where a grass fire was…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Damage estimated at £29,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a large quantity of oil…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Driver's Presence of Mind in Truck Blaze
A truck driver courageously drove a blazing semitrailer vehicle nearly 100 yards before abandoning it, in Wollongong on Saturday morning. Damage caused by the fire is…
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The leading hand painter of the repainting job at the Marshall Mount School, where a fire occurred on Friday, last night…
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Prompt action by the Wollongong Fire Brigade prevented a load of finished leather, valued at £30,000 from…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The frigate, H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven which arrived in Sydney this morning after eight months'…
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LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—A fire roaring through a section of the Cresswell Colliery (Derbyshire) today killed 80 miners. Following rescue attempts lasting over seven…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fire which broke out in a stack of baled cotton on a wharf at Glebe Island early tonight threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overcome By Smoke Putting Out Shop Fire
A passerby was nearly overcome by smoke when he smashed the rear window of a Crown Street West hairdresser's shop yesterday afternoon to play a garden hose on a…
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With summer around the corner an appeal to motorists to display extra care to prevent the starting of bushfires is…
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Wollongong Fire Brigade was called out yesterday morning to attend a scrub fire on a vacant allotment near Jubilee Bridge…
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Wollongong had its first grass fire of the Summer season yesterday morning at 9 a.m., when a, fire broke out on vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Catalogue of Calamity Fire, Friend of Man, Has Also Been Man's Most Persistent Foe
THERE is scarcely a city in the word that, at some time or another, has escaped the searing curse of fire—from Nero's Rome to this year's holocaust at the Canadian lumber town of Rimouski…
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A Bulli mine pensioner and his wife lost everything they owned when their home in George's Avenue, Bulli, was gutted by fire just before lunch yesterday…
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Wollongong Theatres have placed the Royal Theatre, Bull, at the disposal of the Bum committee which has launched…
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The Otford Bush Fire Brigade has appointed Mr. A. Murray as captain and Mr. C. Green as vice-captain…
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A fire that broke out at Bulli on Tuesday completely destroyed the home and belongings of an elderly couple. They were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jones of 30 Georges Avenue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Response To Appeal For Bulli Fire Victims
Several donations have been received towards the appeal to assist Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jones, of Georges Avenue…
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