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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1925

435 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 22

Great Oil Well Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 September 1925 · page 5

The Bucharest correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that experts extinguished the Moreni oil well fire after fifty days, when damage to the…

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Soul Fire Fine Barthelmess Film

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 26 September 1925 · page 7

Richard Bathelmess playe the leading role in Soul Fire, which will be featured at the Theatre Royal on Monday…

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Great Dartmouth Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 5

A destructive fire at the works of Vickers, Limited, at Dartmouth, at mid-night on Friday, destroyed buildings covering one and a half acre, doing…

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Soul Fire Theatre Royal Feature

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 6

In the role of a musical genius, Richard Barthelmess scored a big success in Soul Fire, which opened at the Theatre Royal to-day…

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District News. Wallsend Fire Brigade Social

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 6

A social function, to mark the installation of the Garford Hale motor fire engine, as supplied from the workshops of the Board of Fire Commissioners,…

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Fire Brigades Busy Three Calls Yesterday

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 5

Shortly before eight o'clock last night the Fire Brigade headquarters received a call to a fire in a galvanised iron building in Darby-street, near King-street, occupied…

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New Fire Engine Permanent Man Wanted Wallsend Brigade

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 9

Wallsend now has a motor fire engine only a volunteer crow. The necessity for a permanent man was stressed by the Mayor of Wallsend on…

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District News. Wallsend Fire Brigade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 5

Speakers at Saturday night's function in connection with the installation of the new motor fire engine related interesting, reminiscences of the old volunteer…

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Sequence of Fires Hotels and Church Alight Suspect Arrested Wellington (N.z.)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 3

Somebody evidently wanted to [?] down the town of Hokitika last night. There was great excitement when the Red Lion Hotel was found to be on…

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Lambton Fire Station Improvements Wanted

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 September 1925 · page 3

Lambton Council has been advised by the Board of Fire Commissioners that the question of providing a motor [?]ose carriage for Lambton fire…

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Fire on Racecourse Store-room Destroyed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 September 1925 · page 8

A fire was discovered shortly before eleven o'clock last night in a building on the Newcastle racecourse, used as a feedhouse, stables, and storeroom…

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Timber Mill Gutted Blaze at Cessnock Midnight Alarm

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 October 1925 · page 7

Residents of Cessnock were awakened at one o'clock this morning by the tolling of the fire-bell. A telephone message was received…

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Interrupted Dance Firemen Called Out Big Melbourne Blaze Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 October 1925 · page 3

Firemen who were taking part in their annual ball in Cathedral Hall, Fitzroy, early this morning had leave the dancing, don uniforms over…

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Fire and Black Damp in Southern Collieries. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 October 1925 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Lysaght's M.P. asked Mr. Baddeley, the Minister, for Mines, if he was aware that the report of the southern check…

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Fire at Cessnock

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 6

A few minutes before one o'clock yesterday morning a Cessnock railway employee telephoned to the Cessnock fire station that a fire was raging in Gould…

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Forest Fires in Canada

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 14

According to a recent report in "The Times," more than 100 forest fires have occurred in Canada this season, a number which approaches that of the disastrous…

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Drops of Electric Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 15

Glowing, golden droplets of liquid fire, new and spectacular type of electrical discharge, were discovered recently by Dr. Irving Langmuir, C. G. Found, and…

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Scrub on Fire Blaze at Stockton

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 October 1925 · page 5

The scrub in the vicinity of Mammoth-street, Stockton, caught fire this afternoon, and a quarter of an acre of scrub was destroyed…

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Council's Error Asked for Fire Engine

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 2

A fortnight ago Councillor Johnson asked the Lake Macquarie Shire Council to approach tho Board of Fire Commissioners for a motor hose…

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Blind on Fire Painter to the Rescue

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 8

While painting the verandah railing of Willis's shop High-street West Maitland, yesterday afternoon Harold Lee ago 37 painter of Allan-street…

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