Laundry Burnt Fire in Rusden-street
At 7.30 this morning the fire brigade received a call to 68 Rusden-street, where a spark from a copper had set alight to the laundry. Within 15…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
336 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 17
Motors Destroyed Fire In Factory SYDNEY
Eleven motor cars, worth about £2000, were badly damaged by a fire which broke out in the machine shop at the Austral Engineering Products Pty. Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eleven Cars Damaged Fire In Engineering Works Sydney
Eleven motor cars, worth about £2000, were badly damaged by a fire which broke out in the machine shop of the Australia Engineering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stockinbingal Fire Shortage of Water Plight Of Residents STOCKINBINGHAM
The fourth [?] broke out [?] when a [?] ground…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Facts
Has it ever occurred to you that sufficient growing timber to have built numerous homes is destroyed every year by bush fires?…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →College Fire Twenty Lives Lost St. Hyacinthe (Quebec)
Twenty students and teachers are reported killed, while ten were injured in a fire which destroyed the Sacred Heart College…
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Has it ever occurred to you that sufficient growing timber to have built numerous homes is destroyed every year by bush fires…
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The fourth, fire within 12 months broke out at Stockinbingal recently, and the house was burnt to the ground. THe local fire-fighting force…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl in Love Fires House
A tall, fashionably dressed 19-year-old girl stood in the dock at Plymouth Police Court recently while the story was told of how…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →S.A. HOSTEL Adelaide "People's Palace" Damaged by Fire Adelaide
A fire at the People's Palace hostel which is conducted by the Salvation Army, caused damage estimated at £4000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Facts Points to Remember
Has it ever occurred to you that sufficient growing timber to have built numerous homes is destroyed every year by bush fires?…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →College Fire Death Roll of 46 St. Hyacinthe (Quebec)
The death roll as the result of a fire in the Sacred Heart College is now placed at 46. Twenty bodies are still in the ruins…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russian Embassy Destroyed By Fire Hankow
A fire, suspected to be of incandiarist origin, gutted the soviet Embassy in the French Concession. The majority of the staff was at Chungking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion and Fire In Paddington House Inmates Escape Woman Later Arrested Sydney
Following a serious explosion, fire broke out yesterday in the hallway of a house in Comber-street, Paddington,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery Fire Heroic Miner LONDON
Ten men were trapped and suffocated during a fire in the Dumreok Colliery, Kilsyth A miner gave his life in a vain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Camp Fire Concert Entertainment For Light Horsemen
To-morrow night members of the Armidale sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League will entertain the members of the 12th-24th Light Horse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Damage in Victoria Many Narrow Escapes MELBOURNE
Fierce bush fires destroyed thousands of acres of rich forest in the Kalorama district, Dandenong Ranges…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Demon Ravages Dandenong Ranges Many Narrow Escapes Melbourne
Fierce bushfires destroyed thousands of acres of rich forest in the Kalorna district, Dandenong Ranges, yesterday. No lives were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£2,000 Damage Fire at Council's Depot SYDNEY
Damage estimated at about £2000 was caused by a fire at Petersham Council's head depot, opposite the local railway station…
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