Waratah Fire Motor
Upon the last Board of Fire Commissioner' estimates, a sum of money was placed for the purpose of obtaining a new motor for the Waratah fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1917
287 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 15
Fire Motors Collide. Accident at Maitland
Answering what proved to be a false alarm, the East Maitland and West Maitland are motors collided at the turn near the Victoria bridge on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Brigades' Union. Newcastle Branch Meeting
The annual meeting of the Newcastle branch of the New South Wales Fire Brigades' Union was bold in the School of Arts, Wickham, on Saturday night. There…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Artillery Fire. London
A German officer's report, found at Grandcourt, and dated the night preceding the evacuation, admits the superiority of the British artillery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miscellaneous. Fire at U.S. Munition Works
NEW YORK, Monday:—The machine shop of the Union Switch Signal Company at Pittsburg, which contained the largest plant for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Greece. Great Fire at Piraeus. Started in Arms Factory
ATHENS, Tuesday.—A conflagration at Pireaus, which originated in an arms factory, is spreading rapidly. Allied bluejackets are co-operating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Athens. Athens
A great fire broken out in a munitions factory at the Piraeus. It is still burning and spreading. So far there are ten victims…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Munition Factory Fire. London
The Press Bureau states that the Minister for Munitions announces that a small fire occurred on Wednesday in a factory in Hertfordshire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Hamilton. Flames From Boiling Tar. Woman's Narrow Escape
Word was received at Hamilton fire station at a quarter to 12 to-day, that a four roomed cottage in Gosford Road, Hamilton, was burning fiercely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Hamilton
A four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Gosford-road, Hamilton, owned by Mr. W. Harris, of Hamilton, and occupied by Mr. E. A. Bowen, was destroyed, with its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in London. London
A big fire has occurred at Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Company's publishing warehouses and the neighbouring buildings in Salisbury Square. It blazed furious,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kurri Fire District
The annual financial statement of the Board of The Commissioners shows that in the Kurri Kurri district in 1916 the revenue was £[?] A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Balkans and Turkey. Salonika Front. Huns' Targetless Fire
LONDON, Monday.—Reuter's correspondent at the British headquarters at Salonika describes a highly successful raid on the night of February 10…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland Fire District
A summary of the financial operations of the fire brigade administration in the Maitland fire district shows that the principal items of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Shire Fire Brigades. Last Year's Finances
Details of the revenue and expenditure of fire brigade districts in Cessnock shire Are contained in statements received by the council from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wicker Factory Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire which broke out in a wickerwork factory at Enmore Road, Newtown, early this morning was responsible for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire-bell
Different minds-different viewpoints. It has long been evident that there has been an idea that the right way to work up enthusiasm lies in belittlement or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Leichhardt
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A six-roomed weatherboard cottage, occupied by James Hockley and family, in Hay Street, Leichhardt, was destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cowardly Germans. Fire at Random. London
The destroyers only hit one building. A shell passed over the wall of a cottage and fell in a passage. A man, his wife, and six children were in the house at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hay Shed on Fire
A fire broke out in a bay shed on Louth Park road at 9.30 last night. The blaze and re[?]ction could be seen for miles. The fire started at the bottom of the stack, but…
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