Parliament House Fire Sydney, Thursday Morning
The automatic Bro alarm at Parliament House saved the old wooden buildings from destruction, when a fire broke out early this morning…
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Fires & bushfires, 1930
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Mail Train Scare Man Seen on Footboard Escort Fires Shots Queanbeyan
When the Cooma mail train arrived at Queanbeyan at 20 minutes past 4 o'clock this morning a startling report was furnished to the station-master by the guard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Start Fires Cats Carefully Tutored Ignited by Air London. August 10
British fire insurance companies have been investigating the suggestion that the prototype of the American "fire-bug"—as professioal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Always Prepared— Newcastle Fire Brigade
Newcastle Station Officer Parkes No job for the nervous: Climbing the big ladder…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Risk Too Great Fire Near Railway Trains Blocked
The possibility of a severe explosion, when a house caught fire beside the line at Whittingham, blocked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Home on Fire Occupants' Narrow Escape SYDNEY
Mr. Frank Cotton, formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly, and his daughter, Dora, narrowly escaped injury when a fire broke out at their home in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£27,000 DAMAGE Disastrous Adelaide Fire Picture Films Menaced Adelaide
A fire which broke out in a block of two-storey buildings, owned by H. U. Richards and G. Badman, in Currie-street; Adelaide, early to-day, caused £27,000…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →No Brigade Fire Ravages Town £10,000 DAMAGE Telephonist's Pluck SYDNEY
With the nearest fire brigade nine miles away, the Riverina town of Ganmain was threatened with devastation by flames early this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Escapes Terrible Death in Blazing Cottage Saved Wife Awoke to Find House Was on Fire Man's Ordeal Petrol Tin Explodes in Flame-filled Room
Stanley Williams, aged 23, and his wife had a miraculous escape from being burned to death in a…
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There were moments of excitement at the residence of Mr. S. Edwards, at the intersection of Irving-street, and Newcastle-road, Wallsend, yesterday, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend Heaton Fire Brigade
After criticising the proposal of the Board of Fire Commissioners to disband the Heaton Voluntary Fire Brigade and attach two of the members to Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Home Gutted Stroud-road Blaze Husband's Pluck Care for Young Wife
Racing from his burning home at Raymond Terrace yesterday morning, Stanley Williams, a young dairy farmer, rolled on the ground until the flames in which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Ganmain £10,000 Damage Brigade's Delay Ganmain
There was deplorable delay on the part of the Coolamon fire brigade in attending a disastrous fire which occurred here this morning. While the flames ate their…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Oil Fires "Danger Negligible" Local Storage Tanks Expert's Reassurance
The danger of a catastrophe from a be at the petroleum storage tanks at Wickham and elsewhere in the Newcastle district is practically…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Wangi Boarding House Destroyed
There was a spectacular fire at Wangi shortly before 1 o'clock this morning. One of the largest buildings in the town, known as Brown's boarding-house,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire During Renovation Unhappy Homecoming Sydney
When Mrs. Ralph Cresdee went to Adelaide on a holiday a fortnight ago, her husband decided to renovate the house for her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Brewery Brigade's Great Save Sydney
Under the direction of the Chief Officer (Mr. Nance), seven fire brigades attended an outbreak at Resch's Waverley brewery, last night, and for more then…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£100,000 FIRE Boot Factory Destroyed CAPETOWN, September 27
Wellington tanning and boot factory was gutted this morning, £100,000 damage being done. The fire was discovered at 1 o'clock, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Detectives Arrest Father of Murdered Girl Boarding House Destroyed Narrow Escapes Girl Dashes Through Smoke to Warn Parents in Nick of Time No Fire Brigade : Watched Their House Burn to the Ground
Fighting her way through blinding smoke to the bedside of her sleeping father and mother, 18-year-old Phyllis Brown, saved them from certain death, when a 14-roomed boarding-house at Wangi…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Damages Shed
A shed 50ft by 24ft, used as stables and for the storage of fodder by Mr. J. S. O'Donnell, near his residence in Regent-street, West Maitland, was severely…
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