Bush Ablaze East Cessnock Fire
Cessnock fire brigade was called to an alarm about 6.30 on Saturday evening. Bush was blazing at the end of Anzac-parade, East Cessnock…
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Fires & bushfires, 1927
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 25
Mayfield Fire Blaze in Bedroom
Waratah Fire Brigade was called. at 8.30 p.m. yesterday to a fire in a five-roomed wooden house in Elizabeth-street Mayfield, It is occupied…
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The Tighe's Hill Fire Brigade was called shortly before a-quarter to nine o'clock last night to a small grass fire at the rear of premises occupied by Mr. A. G. Mayo,…
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The town of Seymour, Victoria will soon be completely equipped with an up-to-date bush fire-fighting appartus This mobile equipment will be…
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Noticing smoke and James issuing from the windows of Newtown Markets, Newtown, to-night, William Chalmers, 19, of Marrickville, climbed a wall and…
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A four-roomed weatherboard cottage and contents, situated off the Neath-road, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning…
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The Cessnock Fire Brigade received a call to Neath at 6.25 a.m. yesterday, and on arrival at Neath found the four-roomed residence of Mr. John W. Partington…
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To awake to find the bed in flames was the experience of Alderman and Mrs. young of 32 Northumberland-street,…
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Two workmen were seriously burned in fires which occurred at the Commission employees' camp at Canberra during the week-end…
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Fire destroyed a building of three floors in Kent-street, City, this morning. The premises were occupied by S. C. Wallace as a bonded store, and R. G. Wordsworth,…
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The system of living among the workers in Canberra, led to another serious happening early this morning, when William Joseph Campbell, 24, a labourer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Freezing" Fire New Car Extinguisher
Extinguishing flames by freezing them is the latest method of combating a fire on a car. Patented in England, this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maidstone Fire
The fire at Wateringbury Hall, near Maidstone, when Major Bazley White his wife, a child aged 4 years, and a nurse aged 55 years, wee brunt to death,…
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Mrs. Julia New, victim of the Maitland fire yesterday, died in the Maitland Hospital to-day…
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There were exciting scenes of fire which broke out in a timber yard in Morris-street. Summer Hill. just before three o'clock this morning…
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At midnight on September 14, Mrs. Alma Mary McNeill was seated in front of her copper, reading a book, according to…
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A strange story was told at the inquest on the victims of the fire at Wateringbury House, near Maidstone, which caused the death of Major White,…
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It was a moonlight night, and all was calm and quiet. We were into in getting to bed. and were playing card game in the kitchen…
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Mr. C. Hibble, district corner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Court-house yesterday into the death of Alma Mary M'Neill, who died in the Newcastle…
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The spell of hot weather last week has had a drying effect in the long grass, and several grass fires have already occurred in the suburbs…
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