Hotel Fire Men Walk Through Flames to Rescue Licensee MELBOURNE
Loddon Bridge Hotel, at Bridgewater, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. A policeman and another man went…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
416 stories in New England's papers · page 17 of 21
Bush Fires Warnings Issued SYDNEY
A message from Wagga states that warnings have been issued by various public bodies regarding the danger of bushfires next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Fire Insurance
It is to the Great Fire of London that we [?] the first fire insurance scheme. In the reign of Charles the Second there lived in London a Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigade Inspector's Visit
Inspector Newell, of the New South Wales Fire.Brigades Department, Sydney, visited Guyra on Tuesday evening and inspected local members…
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Seven persons who were trapped by a fire in a building in George Street, City, last evening, were rescued by firemen by means of ladders…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train on Fire Result of Collision Petrol in Flames MELBOURNE
The Horsham to Melbourne train, enveloped in flames, stopped 300 yards after it had crashed into a motor-driven grader and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Planes Cannot Catch Fire With the R.A.F.'s New "Crash Switch"
A new device for aircraft, designed to prevent or put out fire in any emergency, either during flight or on the ground, has been adopted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →N.Z. Mining Disaster Eleven Men Perish Fire Generates Deadly Gas AUCKLAND
Eleven men were killed in mine disaster at Glen Alton Colliery, near Huntly, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Army Contacts Siegfried Pill Boxes Concentrated Artillery Fire Estonia Uneasy About Russian Moves Continued Attack of British Navy on Submarine Menace Rapid Decrease in Tonnage Loss :: Polish Spirit Unbroken in Warsaw LONDON
IT IS BELIEVED IN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES THAT RUSSIA HAS DELIVERED AN ULTIMATUM TO ESTONIA CONCERNING THE USE OF ESTONIAN HARBOURS BY THE RUSSIAN NAVY. THE ESTONIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, M. KARL SELTER, HAS SUDDENLY LEFT MOSCOW FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THE LAST FORTY…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Bush Fire
It was a hot, sultry day in the middle of January in the heart of the Australian bush. A white haze of heat danced on the horizon and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Guards Open Fire Suspect at Oil Tank SYDNEY
Military guards at the oil tanks at chowder Bay fired eight shots at a suspect late last night. While the bullet were flying a man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Investigate Fire on Launch in Iron Cove SYDNEY
Police are investigating a fire which broke out on a 17-feet launch in Iron Cove this morning. When the outbreak was discovered,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cairns Fire Block of &hops Destroyed SYDNEY
A fire last night destroyed a block of shops in Cairns, Queensland. Adjoining buildings were considerably damaged, a guesthouse being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires a National Danger Need for Precaution
The following address, entitled "The Thief at the Nation's Treasure Box," was given recently from Station 2BL by Cr. W. H. Wilson,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car on Fire Early-Morning Outbreak
A 1933 Vauxhall sedan car, owned by Mr. W. Jeffrey, of "Esk Vie," on the Auburn Vale road, was destroyed by fire in the early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Snakes in Fire Employees Alarmed Destruction of Bags
Six hip carpet snakes wriggling about the floor added to the difficulties of firemen fighting an outbreak at the store of Colouhoun Pty., Ltd,. bag…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Engine and Utility Collide Truck Badly Battered
The fire-engine of Armidale Brigade was slightly damaged, and a utility truck belonging to F. V. O'Brien, of 138 Taylor-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bushfire Prevention Volunteer Brigades
A recent survey of all shire and municipal councils in New South Wales revealed that 150 volunteer bush [?]re brigades are located in 41…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Dead Bodies in Fire Debris Man Seriously Injured Sydney
The wife and daughter, aged eight months, of a man named Eaton were burned to death in their home at South Kembla,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Several Fires C.I.E. Investigating SYDNEY
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