Cessnock Fires 25 During the Year
The Cessnock Fire Station received 25 calls during the year. Including 4 false alarms. Six of the calls were to bush fires, six to business premises and nine…
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Fires & bushfires, 1924
415 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 21
District Fire Brigades
Station-officer Turner, who is in charge of B District, B Division of the New South Wales Fire Brigades, with head-quarters at West Maitland, has completed…
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Many brave acts were performed during a fire at the Adel Reformatory School, near Leeds. One boy, awakened the small hours by the smell of…
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Statistics compiled by Mr. V. Hillier, Newcastle Divisional Officer of the New South Wales Fire Brigade were made available last night, covering the…
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The Fire Brigades Bill which was introduced in the State Parliament in 1909, and which became law the following year, was objected to in some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tar on Fire Trains Delayed Wellington (N.z.)
Burning scrub ignited 100 barrels of tar stacked beside the railway line near Ngaere, Taranaki. Trains were held up owing to the…
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In view of persistent rumors that the central mine fire had got into the south Mine. Mr. A. Fairweather superintendent of south Mine. was asked whether…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BACKFIRING Sets Car On Fire
WISEMAN'S FERRY, Saturday. A motor-car, owned and owned by J. Doyle, of Mcrrylands, back-fired and burst into flames, three miles…
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Mr. C. C. Mutters has written to Merewether Council, staling that in March last he asked the council to take up the matter of extending the…
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Ocean Park. California's great [?]t amusement playground has been burned. The loss is estimated at £1,000,000. Hundreds…
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Three swagmen were arrested on charges of stealing from the shops during the fire at Maryborough on Monday…
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The most destructive fire in the history of the town occurred at Nambour on Saturday night, sixteen buildings in the business quarter of the main street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blazing Warehouses Biggest Fire for 50 Years London Dock Area Flames Over Quarter of a Mile LONDON, Monday Night
The biggest London dock fire for fifty years is raging in Poplar, involving an area of a quarter of a mile in extent, the flames shooting 200 feet skywards. The smoke is…
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A serious outbreak of fire occurred In premises occupied by Legge and Co., general merchants. Cootamundra. Damage was done by fire and…
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The biggest London does fire for half a century occurred at Poplar yesterday afternoon, when a large warehouse, stocked with rubber, tea and other…
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The Poplar dockside fire was burning all night long. The walls of an eight-storied rubber warehouse were…
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A fire, the cause of which has not yet been ascertained, broke out at Ainsley's furniture factory, in Liver-pool-road, Ashfield, to-night. The main…
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A dozen engines and three fire floats continued to play water on to the Poplar dockside fire through last night…
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Mr. C. C. Walters wrote to Merewether Council last night, asking if the matter of extending the Fire Underwriters' Boundary in Merewether…
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The Fire Board and Department of Works has advised Hamilton Council that the site at the corner of Belford, Samdon, and Dixon streets has been…
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