Around Sydney Extensive Bush Fires SYDNEY
Around Parramatta, Pennant Hills and Carlingford the new year was born amidst the flames and smoke of bush fires. Gowan Brae, the residence…
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Fires & bushfires, 1923
454 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 23
Week-end Fires. Good Save at Redhead
Newcastle district firemen will remember Saturday as one of the busiest days of the year that has just closed. Five calls were received at headquarters,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Fire Brigades. the Year's Work
Statistics compiled by Mr. W. Hillier, Newcastle divisional officer of the New South Wales Fire Brigades, shows that the district brigades had a strenuous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Fiend Toll of Newcastle District Day of Blazes Mine in Great Danger
The demon, fire, held sway in Newcastle, on Saturday, and spurted potential death from seven points…
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During the week the severe weather has been responsible for widespread bush fires in the district, particularly that portion of it lying between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Cessnock House Destroyed Early Morning Blaze
One of the most disastrous fires in Cessnock occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning, when the residence of Mr. Charles Orr was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Fire Brigades
Station Officer S. A. Tuck, who is in Charge of B district, B division, of the New South Wales Fire Brigades, has completed his annual report, which shows…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extinguisher Bursts Firemen Injured Blaze on a Tram SYDNEY
Two firemen, station officer Francis Smith and Fireman Caller, were injured by the bursting of a hand chemical extinguisher at 12.30 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on the Anconia
A fire broke out in the linen store of the liner Anconia in mid-Atlantic during a following gale blowing at the rate of sixty miles an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fighting Fire Maitland Activities
Mr. S. TucK, station officer at the West Maitland fire station, has prepared the annual returns for the district. These show the number of calls received at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burning Cargo Fire at Sea Outbreak on Skipsea
The crow of the streamer Skipsea, which reached Newcastle yesterday from Portland, United States, brought first-hand information of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Losses at Karuah Sleeper Getter Suffers
Bush fires are rasing round the Karuah district. Fire-fighters are engaged in many places combating the flames, which threaten the outlying…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Harvest Destroyed by Fire
A fire occurred in the wheat paddock of James Orr at Broadmeadows (Victoria), and 40. acres of wheat in stooks and 600 tons of hay in two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Burning Forests Southern Fires Rainstorm at Night GOULBURN
Yesterday bush fires were raging along the Shoalhaven River, and all the country from Shoalhaven to the sea was ablaze. Forests were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Hours' Blaze Bond Store Burned New Zealand Outbreak Wellington (N.z.)
One of the most disastrous fires, that have occurred in Wellington for some years broke out late last night in the bond store of R. Martin, Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Irish Tribulation Another Train Fire New Land Legislation LONDON
"The Daily Mail's" Dublin correspondent says that the Government is preparing a bill to remedy defects in the Land Act, winch will do much to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire-proof Wood
Many of the early ways of making wood and other combustible material proof against, fire were of little more than theoretical value; and in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush Fire Kurri Danger One-man Brigades
A bush fire, fanned by a stiff north-east wind, came roaring across the bush from North Kurri railway station yesterday afternoon, towards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Sofia
Some inflammable substance catching fire at a private metal works in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, resulted in an explosion among munitions which destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Blaze Cracker Through Window Child's Prank Five Lives Lost LONDON
A child's prank in throwing a equals cracker through the ground floor window of a Dublin tenement house resulted in a tank of oil…
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