Radio in Forests How Canada Fights Fires
Australia could learn a lot from Canada in the use of wireless to prevent bushfires spreading. In all the look-out towers here they…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
416 stories in New England's papers · page 10 of 21
Incendiarist at Work Third Blaze In Biscuit Factory BALLARAT
For the third time this year, the Sunshine Biscuit Co.'s factory was visited by an incendiarist. With the aid of kerosene, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Narrow Escape From Asphyxiation Annandale Blaze Elderly Man Collapses SYDNEY
John Margaret (50) had a narrow escape from asphyxiation when fire broke out early this morning in a grocery shop in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£2000 DAMAGES Fire at Sawtell GRAFTON
Derage [?] at [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Naval 'Planes Crash At Aircraft Carrier Launching Four Dead; House Catches Fire QUINCY (Massachussets)
Locking wings as they dived towards the scene of the launching of an aircraft carrier, two naval reserve…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ashfield Fires Man Taken On Three Counts Of Arson SYDNEY
Fire commenced in the pantry of Donald Elgood's home at Ashfield yesterday. The flames were extinguished before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Pantry Neighbour Charged With Arson SYDNEY
A fire broke out in the pantry of the home of Donald [?]good, at A[?]field yesterday. The flames were ex[?] before much da[?]ge was done[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bushfires As Reducer
Mrs White and her 18-year-old daughter Pauline weigh between them nearly half s ton. the mother 43 stone, the daughter 42. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Showered with Burning Liquid Victim's Serious Condition Man Shouts "Fire"; Thrown From Restaurant SYDNEY
When Percy Hazel (29) was showered with a burning liquid during a fire last night in Martin Place premises of the Mutual Life…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Beacon Fires
In these days, when it is possible to chat over the telephone with a person hundreds of miles away, we have no use for beacon fires, but in the old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Home Demolished by Fire
During the absence of Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Griese and family at Bingara on Easter Monday their home and contents were burnt. They left…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Township Fire Narrow Escapes From Injury MELBOURNE
A disastrous fire occurred this morning in the business section of Olinda a small township in the Dandenong Ranges…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Fighting Appliances
At this week's meeting of the Municipal Council Ald. Sims asked that the Board of Fire Commissioners be requested to place pneumatic tyres on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Alarm Blind Soldier's Danger Rescued in Time SYDNEY
A fire broke oat al Dee Why early this morning in a house occupied by a blind Anza,. Mr. E. C. Traynor, 49 and Mrs. Dorothy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bones and Teeth Recovered From Fire Will be Analysed SYDNEY
To-day detectives brought to Sydney for analysis the bones and teeth believed to be human remains recovered on Saturday from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Fire Damages £15,000 SYDNEY
A disastrous fire occurred at Young last night and was not extinguished for some hours. The outbreak commenced in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in East-street
At about 12.20 to-day the local fire brigade was called to the scene of a small outbreak of fire at the residence of Mr. J. A. Michell, of East Street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rioting in India Police Fire on Mob CALCUTTA
In a house where there was rioting, dur to a "no rent" campaign, the police fired on the mob, killing fifty and wounding a similar…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bangalow Fire £20,000 Damage
More than £20,000 damage was caused by a fire which destroyed four buildings and threatened many others in the main street of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man on the Land Hardships in Victoria Floods Follow Fires
Some interesting observations on the setbacks the man on the land has been suffering in Victoria as a result of extremes of heat rain and drought…
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