Fire in Newcastle Provision Shop Blaze
Fire Brigade headquarters received a call at half-past ten o'clock last night to an outbreak that had occurred in the premises of the Newcastle Dairy Company…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1926
571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 29
Mysterious Fires
There has been a remarkable series of destructive mansion fires in various parts of the country during the past eight months. In nearly every case the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →West-end Fire Hams and Cheeses Burned
Hams, butter and cheeses blazed merrily when a fire broke out in the provision shop on the ground floor of the Newcastle Dairy Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cottage Destroyed £240 Pianola in Fire SINGLETON
A six-roomed weatherboard cottage, owned by Mrs. Ada Smith, was destroyed by fire last night. Mrs. Smith and her two children…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Exploded Munitions Big Fire at Temora TEMORA
The big stores of James Thomas were destroyed by fire this morning. Adjoining buildings were saved from destruction. During the fire a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Robbery at Scone Thieves Set Fire to Store
Thieves entered the premises Garside and Co., storekeepers, Scone, between Saturday night and this morning and after blowing open the safe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Oil Fire £40,000 Loss at Noumea NOUMEA
The Vacuum Oil Company's buildings were burnt to the ground at 4 p.m. yesterday. They contained 15,000 cases of benzine and kerosene,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Stack Ablaze Port Waratah Outbreak Timely Discovery Fire Brigade's Good Work
What promised to be a serious fire outbreak in the Public Works Department's 12,500-ton coal stack at Port Waratah was checked after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coastal Bush Fires
The master of the Union S.S. Company's steamer Ngatoro, which reached Newcastle yesterday from Brisbane, reports that visibility at sea was extremely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wyong Bush Fires WYONG
Thick smoke from the bush fires around enfolds Wyong in a dense fog. Water is getting source, and household tanks are dry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Home Destroyed Blaze at Wallsend
While Mr. John Gardiner and his wife were at the pictures last night their home at Pittown, Wallsend, was destroyed by fire…
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At a late hour last night a wooden dwelling in Gunambi-street, Pittown, Wallsend, was gutted by fire. The building was owned and occupied by Mr. John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on Station Careless Traveller's Act WARREN
A fire occurred on Yarren Grove between Nevertire and Warren, the property of J. L. Hammmblin, Fanned by a westerly gale, it travelled rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Great Save Fire on Steamer Rona. AUCKLAND
The steamer Rona, which has arrived from Fiji with a sugar, cargo, had a narrow escape from serious damage by a fire which wan extinguished only…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Raging Inferno Big Fire at Botany Homes in Perial Sydney
There is no luck about the house, there is no luck at all," so whistled a pet magpie owned by Owen Evans, who lives in Coward-street, Botany, at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Menaced by Fires North Coast District Business Affected Lismore
With the thermometer registering on an average of 100 degrees every day, and the country burnt almost to cinders, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fire Outbreak in Federal Park
Headquarters fire brigade, was called to a grass fire in Federal Park shortly after 10 a.m. to-day. The flames were extinguished before any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Denman Outbreak DENMAN
The sparks from a locomotive is blamed for a bush-fire, which broke out near the Denman common. The flames spread rapidly and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires in Islington
A serious outbreak of fire occurred a the stabling premises of W. S. Bacon, Limited, in Clyde-street, Islington West, early yesterday afternoon, when a spark…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mayfield Grass Fire
A small grass fire broke out in Kerr-street, Mayfield, this morning. Waratah brigade subdued the flames by the aid of buckets of water and…
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