Fire Equipment Lake District's Need
The president of Lake Macquarie Shire (Councillor Johnson) seen in the are menace which swept the lake district during the week-end added,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1928
543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 28
Fire Fiend Checked Calm Prevents Spread
Although a trail of blackened desolation has been spread in the wake of the bush fires which raged around Newcastle on Sunday, and a pall over of smoke from areas…
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Damage estimated at £5000 was done by a fire which destroyed three shops and a residence at Nambour on Sunday night. The fire started at the auction mart,…
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A fire on the P. and O. Branch Line steamer Benalla as it lay at Dorman Long's wharf at North Sydney caused some trouble before it was extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Colliery
The fire which occurred in the coal storage bins at Nobleval No. 1 Colliery, on the Bundanba loop line, near Ipswich (Q), was, it is believed caused through…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →U.S. Penitentiary Fire Junction City (Ohlo)
Seventeen prisoners in the State Penitentiary were burned to death in a fire in a dormitory in which 270 prisoners were asleep…
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Fire Brigade headquarters received a call, about a quarter-past 7 o'clock last evening, to a fire that had been discovered in a rubbish heap on land…
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Damage estimated at over £2000 was done by fire in Adams Chambers Elizabeth-street, near Park-street, shortly after 1 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Bush Fires Settlers Burnt Out Brisbane
Extensive bush fires which are raging on the Darling Downs caused much damage in the Jandowae district. Several settlers have been burnt out, and others…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Fur Store
Damage amounting to about £2000 was caused by a fire which broke out early yesterday morning in the showrooms of Overseas Company, Ltd., fur dealers,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Five Incinerated Roadside Motor Fire LONDON
Motorists returning from Shaftesbury village hospital carnival stopped to watch what they though was an abandoned overturned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Hotel Brigade's Good Save Sydney
What threatened to be a most serious outbreak was stifled in brilliant fashion by a big force of firemen in Sydney late to-day. The Wentworth Hotel, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District News Wangi and Lake View All Fire Danger Over
The bush fires which raged during the week-end have completely subsided the dead undergrowth has been burned cut, rendering a recurrence of fires during…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Risks Great Experiment
One of the most spectacular scientitie experiments of recent times was carried out recently in Washington, U.S.A. Two brick buildings, one of them five storeys…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire in Sydney
Fire destroyed the Juvenile Clothing Company's factory premises in Oxford-street, Darlington, yesterday morning, and severely damaged Crawshaw's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer on Fire Flames Subdued Portland (Oregon)
The British freighter Trojanster, en route from Shields,. England, to British Columbia ports, is on fire off the northern California coast…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tar Blaze Two-hour Fight Building Gutted
Tar bolling over in the stills at the Brooklyn Oil Company's works, Clyde-street, Newtown, about 3 a.m. to-day, set fire to…
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Extensive damage was done by a fire which broke out at the factory of Harry Lewis and Company, in Elizabeth-street, Sydney yesterday afternoon. The cause…
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About 3.24 o'clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered at the Brookland Oil and Distillery works at Newtown, Hamliton. The building, which was owned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motorists and Bush Fires
While denying that the motorists should be suspected in every case of being responsible for outbreaks of fire at weekends in the bush in the outer suburbs, the…
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