Early Morning Fire in City Hotel
A fire occurred at an early hour this morning in a bedroom in the top floor of the Shortland Hotel, Market-street, of which Mr. J. Lake in the licensee…
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Fires & bushfires, 1928
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On Live Wire Miraculous Escape in Hotel Fire Bed in Flames Old Man's Plight in Upstairs Room
Caught by his chin on a live wire at a fire at the Shortland Hotel, Market-street, about 2 a.m. to-day, Fireman Thompson, of Newcastle East brigade, bad a miraculous escape from electrocution…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Building Gutted Fire at Hamilton
About 3.25 a.m. to-day, Hamilton Fire Brigade received a call to 25 Beaumont-street, the I.X.L. Stores, which was burning fiercely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EXPLOSIONS Bad Sydney Fire SYDNEY
A flash of light. a series of explosions, and then a mass or flames marked the beginning of a disastrous fire at the factory of E. T. Johnson…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hamilton Blaze I.x.l. Stores Gutted
About 3.25 a.m., yesterday the Hamilton Fire Brigade received a cell to an outbreak of fire in the I.X.L. Stores, Beaument-street, Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Wax Factory
Though the fire lasted only half-an-hour, £10,000 damage was caused by a blaze at the was and stain factory of S. C. Johnson and Son at Rosebery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Fire
Sparks flew from the point where electric light wire adjoin the ceiling in the grocery department of R., Davls's store in Vincent-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Careless Use of Fire
Mr. Burntnell, the Chief Secretary, stated yesterday that, owing to the dry conditions existing in parts of the State, and the very early harvest, many farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aberdare Fire Chitter Heap Burns
Bush fires at Kitchener on Thursday set the chiller rit Aberdare Central colliery Alight. Men have been working day and night to keep the fire under control…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Mountains Earth's Safety Valves
At the present moment the fertile plains on the eastern shores of Sicily are being ravaged by one of the worst outbreaks of volcanic activity known to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Risk Re-classification Wanted
Aldermen Castleden and Christle will act as delegates of the City Council next Tuesday when they will confer in Sydney with the committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Fire Contributions
The board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales has advised West Maitland Council that contributions allotted to the district for 1929, are: East…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lake Fire Brigades
Lake Macquarie Shire has been advised by the Board of Fire Commissioners that approval has been given for the appointment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Sydney Checked by Brigades Sydney
The timely arrival of brigades prevented what might have been a disastrous outbreak in Sydney to-night, when two top floors of Aberdoon House, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Burnt Out Moree's Business Plight Fires' Sweep £30,000 Loss in Second Blaze MOREE
Six of those business firms which were burnt out on December 3 were again burnt out in a disastrous fire which swept the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Church Destroyed by Fire
Fire badly damaged St. John's Anglican Church at Campsie yesterday. The alarm was given at 10 a.m., but by the time the firemen arrived the building was alight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Died in Fire Man's Escape Attempt Fails BRISBANE
Affer trying to escape death by wrapping himself in bed clothes, a young man. W. McLean, perished in a fire which destroyed a residential at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Moree Fire Second in Ten Days Many Shops Destroyed Incendiarism Suspected Moree
For the second time in ten days a devastating fire has swept through the business centre of Moree. Though not so serious as the first fire, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Extinguishers
Much remains to be learned about fire-extinguishing agents, says a writer in the "Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little, Ine. It was found not long ago in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Service Cost
According to a communication which the Redfern Municipal Council received from the Board of Fire Commissioners, the estimated expenditure of the Board…
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