Record in Fire Calls
Australians have the reputation of dearly loving the putting up of new records. Brisbane has Just established a new one—a record number of calls received by the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1926
571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 29
Queensland Fire Post Office Destroyed TOOWOOMBA
A disastrous fire occurred at 2.30 a.m. to-day at Allora, when the post office and four places of business were completely destroyed. The telephone…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Shocking Tragedy" Irish Fire Mystery Flames and Poison London
The tragedy at the mansion of "La Mancha," near Dublin, where the house was found locked up and in flames, with the bodies of two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tragic Country Fire Three Men Killed Sydney
Three men were burnt to death and some others had narrow escapes when the Federal Coffee Palace at Walcha was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The victims…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Scouts Camp Fire Concert Weird War Cries
At the boy scouts' corroborco camp at Marmong; Teralba, last night, the main attraction was a camp fire concert. The site on which the camp is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£2000 DAMAGE H.M.S. Herald Fire SYDNEY
The damage sustained by H.M.S. Herald when she caught fire at Newcastle recently is estimated at £2000. Repair work is being curried out at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Cairo
A grant fire in the Tantah district of Cairo has been raging for 24 hours, and 32 persons have lost their lives. It is estimated that 4000 have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lorry on Fire Damage at Maitland
A motor lorry, the property of Lewis Morris, of Bulwar-street. West Maitland, was badly damaged by fire late yesterday afternoon…
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The Banff Hotel, the famous resort in the Canadian Rockies, visited by many Australians, was burned this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huge Oil Fire £4,000,000 Damage Terrific Explosion Lightning Causes Disaster
Four million pounds damage has been caused by an oil fire in California. The largest oil tanks in the world…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oil Field Fire
A loss estimated at £2,000 000 is reported from San Luis Osbizpo, California, to have resulted on the Union Oil Company's fields there, from a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Country Destroyed Oil Tanks on Fire Town Abandoned San Francisco
The fire at the San Luis Oblapo (California) oil tanks continues to rage fiercely. For 20 miles around, farms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Sea Story of Paparoa Seamen's Hard Fight Fremantle
"The flames consumed the ship's stores, but the crew tightened their belts, and fought on. It was a nopeless light, but the men did not let…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sounds to Control Fires
The use of sound waves as fire extinguishes and a weapon in warfare is called a possibility by Howard' Coonley, civilian director for the Chemical Warfare…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Oil Tank Fires
A message from Los Angeles states that the fires in the two California tank farms of the Union Oil Company were most spectacular in American petroleum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Not a Fire Alarm Sprinkler Overflows
Early this morning headquarters fire brigade received a call through the automatic sprinkler alarm to David Cohen's warehouse in Bolton-street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Risk of Fire Keep Your Head!
Serious accidents are often due to the careless handling of motor spirit, probably the most inflammable spirit known. Yet who has not seen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Fiend at Work Valuable Hedges Burnt MELBOURNE
A fire fiend whose particular mania is to set valuable hedges alight is operating in St. Kilda. For the second time during the last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Outbreaks of Fire
At 9.20 p.m. yesterday, the headquarters' fire brigade were called to a fire in June-street, Merewether. On arrival they found that the occupants were away, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Senseless "Joke" False Alarms of Fire
Newcastle fire brigade officers are tired of being turned out for non-existent fires, a practice which some unknown person evidently regards as…
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