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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
743 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 38
After a sensational chase, detectives tonight shot a man dead in Jolimont Park, at the rear of Jolimont station. The victim has not been positively identified…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heroic efforts at a fire at Hamilton, Lanarkshare, saved the elderly inmates of a lodging house, except two, who were so…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The first meeting of the recently-formed Central Bush Fire Committee was held to-day, when consideration was given to the best means of assisting bush fire sufferers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire in the Minders Ranges district, which residents had fought since Friday night, and which was one of the largest in the State for years, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With her bunkers smouldering, the steamer Forthbridge reached Newcastle this morning from Geelong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The country home of T. M. Burke, built at Mt. Dandenong, at a cost of £28,000, was destroyed by a bush lire to-day. Fifteen persons, including eight children…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain is needed to prevent the spread of bush and grass fires in Ouyen, Sale, Maffra, Mornington and Hamilton districts, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Serious bush fires have started in the vicinity of the Mt. Bischoff power-station in Waratah Valley. The valley for many years has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A large number of outbreaks of grass fires of a minor character were reported in suburban areas to-day. Among the suburbs affected were Deewhy, Balmain,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire which broke out in an unoccupied cottage at Kearsley on Tuesday afternoon was quickly extinguished by a bucket brigade before any serious damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two serious conflagrations which threatened to destroy the best mountain and bush scenery on the slopes of Mt. Wellington, are at present raging in the bush…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A change from hot winds to cool southerlies, and a corresponding drop of nearly 40 degrees in the temperature, caused much relief in the bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The home of the famous late Nellie Stewart, who died last year, occupied by Mrs. Nancy Stewart Linton, in Mosman, was threatened with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →What amazing story lies behind the mysterious visit to Moscheto-Island last night by three strangers in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nearly all the bush fires in Victoria are under control, and the position will remain safe unless the weather changes to warm with northerly winds…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hard at is with prizes in Band Carnival in view.—Members of the Bendigo Municipal Band practising at University Hotel. RUINS OF £30,000 HOME of Mr. T. M. Burke at Sassafras Dandenong Ranges (Victoria) left destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The unusual spectacle of a squad of fireman pouring water fromn a hose on to a mass of blazing grass on one of the banks near Newcastle beach…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire which broke out in the Manus Pine Forest last night, threatened to assume serious proportions, but after a strenuous fight on the part of 150…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two railway employees were burned while assisting to extinguish a grass fire which broke out near a railway waggon containing 2000 gallons of petrol at Junee…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With the huge oil-filled vats 40 yards away, firemen fought a nerve-wracking battle against flames which broke out in William Adams' iron foundry, in…
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