FILM [?] Blaze in City Strede Melbourne
A it was-placed in a motor car in [?] street city, this afternoon 2000 feet of the city ”The Catspaw” caught on five apparently through…
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Strange Fires In Unoccupied House Deliberate It Is Said Melbourne
Three times last week an effort was made to burn an unoccupied house in Williams road. Hawsburn and now detective have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigades Were Busy Over 3000 Calls Answered City and Suburbs Sydney
Fire-brigades in the city and suburbs received 840 false alarms during the year. However, the brigades answered 2929 genuine calls, an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Family’s Narrow Escape Boy’s Warning in Nick of Time Kiosk on Fire Melbourne, Tuesday
A narrow escape from being burned to death was experienced this morning by Mr. and Mrs. A. Joyce and their daughter Verna, 17, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Bush Fire Small Town Menaced a Gallant Fight Succeeds Sydney
The small township of Curlewis, in the Gunnedah district, to-day was menaced by a serious bushfire, which was advancing on a five-mile front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Items of News Fires in Albury in 1934
During 1934 the Albury Fire Brigade attended 19 calls, including two false alarms. The actual fires were [?] three in private dwellings, six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Garage Extensive Damage Sydney
Damage estimated at more than £2000 was caused late last night by a fire which destroyed the Golden Bell garage in King street, St. Peters, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wodonga Cottage on Fire
The weatherboard six-roomed cottage owned and occupied by Mr. Mark Mulquceney and family and situated adjacent to the entrance to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatal Tenement Fires. In Crowded Brooklyn. New York
Bringing to a climax a series of disastrous tenement house fires, during the past few months, which have taken many lives, in the crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Store Shed Bucket Brigade Does Good Work
Shortly after 5 p.m on Friday last a fire broke out in a large iron shed in Wellington street owned and occupied by Messrs. A. Miller and Co. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Station Destroyed. Struck by Lightning and Burnt. MELBOURNE
Struck by lightning, the Creswick fire station was destroyed by fire to-day. The firemen fought the blaze unsuccessfully in torrential rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck by Lightning Fire Station in Flames a Man’s Escape Creswick
Striking the Creswick fire station about 12.10 a.m. to-day lightning started a fire which quickly had a hold on the wooden building. While the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tenement Fire 'Two Firemen Killed; 40 Injured Stair-case Collapses New York, Jan. 2
There was an addition to the series of disastrous fires which have occurred in tenement houses in the past few months and have taken many lives,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire Shops and Garage Go Damage Estimated at £5000 BALLARAT
Two shops a garage and two adjoining Mouses, were burnt to the ground early yesterday. Damage is estimated to be in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mysterious Explosion Albury Baker’s Shop Petrol Fumes, Ignited? Brigade Called Called to Fire
A mysterious explosion in a baker’s shop in Wilson street in the early hours of yesterday morning caused considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Moama
A seven-roomed weatherboard house belonging to Mr. A, E. Barker, horse trainer, of Moama, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. Detected about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rail Traffic Fire Trains , for Sydney Scouts and Guides at Albury
Four trains from Melbourne and five out of Albury were necessary last evening to accommodate holiday traffic, heavily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires And the Cigarette Smoker Everyone Should Be Careful
There is at present a great deal of speculation and anxiety in the heavily umboared districts of N.S.W. and Victoria concerning the possibility. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire. Cyril Young’s Residence Gutted
[?] is a long time since the fire tolled In Berrigan, and when it [?] out its sombre news, on Wed[?] 2nd January, there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Shot Dead Accident Near Beechworth Was in Line of Fire
William MacKinley aged about 50 years, attendant at [?] Mental Hospital was fatally wounded by [?] about…
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