The Fire Raiser
A London message reads:— One of the largest and most amazing fire-raising organisations ever known in England has been broken up…
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Fires & bushfires, 1924
415 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 21
Fires in Sydney. Sydney
A fire broke out at the Balmain Box Factory, Annandale, at a late hour to-night, and caused very heavy damage. Brigades from the adjoining suburbs were…
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Official figures published reveal that 3000 persons were burned to death, suffocated, or died in a panic, and 700 others were injured last Friday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Promise Adamstown Fire Engine
The secretary of the Board of Fire Commissioners intimated to Adamstown Council that the board cannot give a definite date when a motor fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Danger Scrubby Land Must Be Cleared
Mr. W. J. Grieve. Cessnock shire clerk, reported at the Council meeting this morning that notices had been served on owner to clear land…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigades' Carnival
The Newcastle District Firemen's Beach Carnival drew large crowds on Saturday, especially at night. It is being conducted in aid of the firemen's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Outbreaks of Fire Mayfield and Newcastle
Shortly before half-past ten o'clock on Saturday night the Waratah Fire Station was called to the Mayfield Picture Palace, where outbreak had occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Fire Coroner's Inquiry Open Verdict
The adjourned inquest into the fire at J. T. Howard's drapery establishment in [?]street Cessnock. was resumed this morning before Mr. George Brown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mistaken for Burglar Diplomat On Fire Escape Imprisoned in Office LONDON
Captain Prestrud, the new naval attached at the Norwegian Legation, was inadvertently imprisoned on his first day in the office…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Tight Corner Aviators' Escape Repairs Under Fire LONDON
While a companion kept, an enemy patrol at buy with, a machine gun, Captain Jones, of the Air Force, repaired his engine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Fire in Shanghai
A message from Shanghai states that it is believed that a hundred persons have died from a fire which destroyed a four-storey silk factory in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Killingworth. Picture Film Blaze
M. Kedwel, who lives in Second-street, Boolaroo, was admitted to Wallsend Hospital on Saturday night, suffering from severe burns and shocks, sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Water Supply Killing worth Fire Danger Blaze at Movies
A fire occurred in the Killing-worth Institute Hall on Saturday night, at 9.15 o'clock, and at one time it threatened to destroy the…
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Plans have been prepared and the necessary information forwarded to the Fire Underwriters' Association, Sydney, by Merewether Council in…
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A milkman doing his rounds at Hamilton, yesterday morning at 4.20 o'clock, noticed a wooden building of two stories at 118 and 120 Beaumont-street, occupied…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners has notified Adamstown Council that the report of the official opening of the Adamstown Fire Station in 1922…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIRE Shop In Flames Mayfield Blaze Footwear Stock Destroyed
At about 2.15 a.m. to-day Waratah Fire Brigade was called to a fire in Maitland-road. Mayfield Later on Tighe's Hill and…
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Fire broke out on the s.s. Dorset, which has arrived at Glasgow from New Zealand. There were exciting scenes in Glasgow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Tempe. Furniture Factory Destroyed Sydney
The biggest outbreak of fire in, Sydney for some weeks occurred to-night, when Woods' furniture factory, a wooden and iron building of one floor, situated in…
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A fire on board the steamer Dorset, loading at Glasgow for New Zealand, caused much damage…
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