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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 25
The strictest precautions are being maintained at Liverpool to prevent the combustion of the 8000 tons of petrol, which was discharged into the .River Mersey from the stranded and damaged oil tanker, Seminole…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twenty-five children were either burned or frozen to death when the huge hospice, St. Charles Orphanage, was destroyed by fire. THE orphanage is conducted by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What might have been a tragedy was averted last night by the prompt attendance of Headquarters and Newcastle East Fire Brigades, at a fire which occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trapped in a smoke-filled bedroom, Mrs. Connelly was lying on the burning bed, overcome by the choking fames and smoke, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A reading lamp, left burning by the occupant of a room on the first floor of the George hotel early yesterday morning, set fire to the pillow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six cottages, in Patonga-street, Woy Woy, owned by Mrs. A. M. Quirk, were destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. It is understood that the outbreak, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man was riding through Mr. Lamblcy paddock in Glen Oak, one hot summer's day. As he was lighting his pipe, he dropped tho lighted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The hoard of Fire Commissioners have fixed Lambton Council's contribution to 130 18s. This is an increase of £22 9s 7d on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The aircraft carrier Langley on which one man was killed and 14 injured, four of them seriously, in an explosion and fire on board. A gasoline leak was responsible for the disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The back-firing of a petrol driven engine set fire to the chaff-cutting mills of Prescott's, Limited, at Marrar, in Riverina, to-day, and caused damage…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is reported from Manila that the second incendiary fire this year at Pasay, in the Nipa district, killed three children and made 2500 Manilans…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Slight damage was done by a fire which occurred last night in a weather-board cottage, occupied by Mr. C. T. Noone, junior, in Queen-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prompt action by Fireman W. Murray of the Stockton Fire Brigade saved a weatherboard house, in Queen-street, Stockton, from being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Warsaw correspondent of "The Times" says that a fire broke out at midnight in Dzlkow Castle, the residence of Count…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?] drowning fatality, a poisoning case, and two fires marked the Christmas week-end in the Cairns district…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Four firemen were killed, and 50 families are homeless as a result of a fire which gutted a five-storey…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The Fire Brigade," the feature picture at the Theatre Royal to-day, stars May McEvoy, as the daughter of a millionaire whose business tactics are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The steamer Clan MacWilliam caught fire at Vavau, in Tongan Group, and became a total loss. Captain W. Thompson and an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four firemen were killed in a fire in a large five-storey factory in the Gallowgate, Glasgow, on Christmas Eve. The Central Brigade received the call…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bodies of three of the four Glasgow firemen who were trapped in a five-storey factory fire in Graham-street, Glasgow, on Christmas Eve…
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