A Popular Fire Chief
For many years Mr. Harrie Lee, the chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, has been one of the best known and most popular figures in Melbourne. A strict…
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Fires & bushfires, 1927
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 25
Fire at New Lambton Householder Severely Burned
Through a pot of fat boiling over an a gas stove a disastrous fire occurred at New Lambton shortly before ten o'clock yesterday morning, when a weatherboard…
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A workshop, 30 by 30 feet, on the A.A. Company's wharf, was slightly damaged by fire yesterday afternoon, as was also a 3 1/2 h.p. Douglas motor…
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After being in collision with a tramear at the corner of Auckland and Hunter streets, Newcastle, early on Saturday evening, a motor car owned by Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nagambie Fire Seven Shops Destroyed MELBOURNE
Seven residential shops, comprising practically the whole main street of the thriving town of Nagamble, were totally destroyed by fire this morning…
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The losses to agriculture due to the spentanous combusion of haystacks prove to be consideration In "Matoriaux pour [?]tude des calamites" for…
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The cause of the fire which destroyed the motor car, driven by Mrs. Macdougall, last Saturday night has not yet been definitely established…
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Three calls to fires were received by the Newcastle district brigades yesterday, but the outbreaks were not, of a serious nature…
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Scrub near Gordon-avenue, Hamilton, caught fire to-day, and the Hamilton brigade was called out. About half an acre of grass was…
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Recently the repellent spectacle of little weeping children, barefooted, and clad only in join cloths, being dragged through a pit of fire was witnessed, and applanded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at St. Vincent's Girl Fatally Burned. Sydney
Sarah Maguire (25), employed as a leitchenmaid at St. Vincent's Hospital, died in that institution to-night, from burns received when a fire broke out in the…
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Damage, amounting to millions of dollars, was caused here by a fire in the Customs warehouse…
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A miners' deputation to the manager of the Wallsend colliery ended suddenly this morning. when the alarm was raised, that smoke was…
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The German steamer Essen, 5158 tons gross, on which an outbreak of fire occurred at Amsterdam while the vesel was on her way to Hamburg…
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About 10 o'clock on Saturday morning Wallsend Fire Brigade, under Captain T. Fogo, attended to an outbreak in smouldering rubbish in an old shaft opposite the…
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Firemen at drill Every day in their glistening helmet; spic and span uniform and powerful red painted motors, firemen dash out to practice…
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A light, thrown down in a bedroom of a six-roomed building in Elizabeth-street, Wickham, caused a fire yesterday afternoon, to which…
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Headquarters fire brigade was called out this morning to a small grass fire on a vacant allotment near Way's Limited, factory, in Darby-street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forest Fires "Glenister of the Mounted"
What is probably one of the most thrilling forest-fire scenes over filmed is contained in "Glenister of the Mounted," "Lefty" Flynn's latest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Big Blaze in Balkans Threatened to Pole by Air Byrd Hopes to Fly Southward Difficult Region May Consult Australian Air Experts
Captain Byrd, the first man to fly to the North Pole by aeroplane, is looking for fresh Poles to conquer. He hopes to fly to the South Pole next year, and will probably make a base in New Zealand, but the actual flight…
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