National Emergency Large Numbers of Trained Fire fighters SYDNEY
According to the Minister in charge. Mr. primrose, there are 63,576 trained men and women in the National Emergency Service…
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Fires & bushfires, 1941
184 stories in New England's papers · page 4 of 10
Cape Fire Put Out with Garden Hose
Shortly after midnight on Wednesday a pacing motorist drew sub-station officer J. Hartnett's attention to an outbreak of fire at N. Feros's Cafe…
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Yesterday the local brigade was called out to control a grass fire which occurred on the cricket ground dajacent to St. Andrew's Church. There was no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Most Powerful Bombs Start Huge Fires In Hamburg (Australian Associated Press.) London
The latest and most powerful bombs were used on Hamburg last night. Pilots impression of the effects of these powerful bombs are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Fire Military Hospital £10,000 Damages MELBOURNE
A [?] destroyed a laundry [?] yesterday causing damage estimated at more than [?]000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£10,000 Fire at Military Hospital Machinery and Bedding Destroyed MELBOURNE
Fire destroyed a laundry at Caulfield Military Hospital yesterday causing damage estimated at more than £10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Train Six Boys Killed LONDON
Six boys from Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, were killed and seven injured when they jumped from a blazing coach on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Factory Fire Spark From Ashes Set Heap of Wood Burning
Armidale Fire Brigade was called at 12.55 p.m. yesterday to deal With an outbreak of fire in a heap of wood at New England Butter Factory in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Keepit Dam Premier Fires First Shot North-West Water Schemes
The Premier, Mr. Alex Mair, fired the first, "shot" of the Keepit Dam excavations before a large assemblage on Wednesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£150,000 BLAZE Disastrous Our[?] Melbourne MELBOURNE
Damage estimated at £150,000 was caused by a fire which gutted a large section of Bond and Free Stores, Limited last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£15,000 DAMAGE Fire in Melbourne MELBOURNE
Damage estimated at £15 000 was caused by a fire which gutted a large section of the Bond and Free [?] last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Ganger From Weeds Appeal To Citizens For Co-operation
Weed growth was so prolific last summer that it is likely to develop into a lire menace when it becomes dry during the winter months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big City Fire Twelve Fighters Overcome SYDNEY
Twelve firemen were overcome by smoke and fumes while fighting a fire in about 200 tons of hemp in a warehouse in Kent-street, City last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Great Fire £10,000 Damage Firemen Overcome SYDNE
[?] were overcome by [?] hing a fire b[?] of hemp in a ware[?] Ken Street [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Life in England Frequent Bombing Incendiary Fires
Mr. and Mrs. D. Treffoni. of Inverell have received a letter from letter from their daughter who resides with her husband near Birkenhead, England. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →House Destroyed Fire of "Cooyong."
A house belonging to the estate of the late Mr. C. J. White and situated at "Cooyong," 12 miles from Inverell on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Probe Fire in Glebe Residential Believed Caused By Fireworks SYDNEY
Police are investigating the cause of a fire which damaged a residential in Boyce-street, Glebe, owned by Miss Catherine Hayes, yesterday morning…
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Ald. H. K. W. Mackenzie, of Orange, has been elected to the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales, as representative of country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OBITUARY Former Fire Brigade Chief SYDNEY
Thomas P. H. Nance, who for many years was chief officer of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades collapsed and died in the street near Merrylands railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FORMER N.S.W. Chief Fire Officer Drops Dead at Merrylands SYDNEY
Mr. Thomas P. H. Nance, who, for many years, was chief officer of NewSouth Wales Are brigades, collapsed and died in a street near Merrylands…
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