Week-end Fires
Headquarters, Hamilton, and Wallsend Fire Brigades attended small outbreaks of fire during the week-end. On Saturday night at 6 o'clock, Newcastle brigade,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1932
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Fire Destroys Cottage
A four-roomed weatherboard cottage, is James-street, West Cessnock, occupied by Albert Wells, with its contents, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Wells…
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Yesterday afternoon Cessnock Fire Brigade was called to extinguish a fire in the scrub adjacent to Melbourne-street, Aberdare. A strong westerly wind was…
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Ruins of Donaghoe's store, Braidwood, which was gutted by fire…
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A big bush fire raged at South Bowen-fels yesterday, and a considerable area of country was swept. An old unoccupied homestead which stood in the path of…
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A bush fire broke out at Fern[?]ill, Cardiff, this afternoon. It was distinguished by the Cardiff brigade. FOURTH TEST…
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Yesterday afternoon about six acres of scrub adjacent to Melbourne-street, Aberdare, caught alight and threatened houses in the vicinity. The fire was extinguished…
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Thrown into a state of terror by the noise of a loud explosion, the occupants of a house at Ryde this afternoon rushed out to investigate, and discovered that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Magpie Causes Fire on Pole! Scouts to Rescue Muswellbrook
A magpie, sitting on the crossiree of a high tension electricity pole, caused a fire. The magpie pecked at one of the…
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The Japanese Consul-General in Sydney stated to-night that according to information received from the Foreign Office, Tokio, on January 31, the Japanese…
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A woman had a narrow escape from serious injury at Warner's Bay, when the electric storm was at its…
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A fire occurred in the yard of premises occupied by E. Jenkins, in Gas-street, Singleton, last night. While the tank of a timber lorry was being filled…
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Fire damaged the laundry of a weatherboard cottage at No. 5 Greaves-street, Mayfield, this morning. A spark from the chimney flue of the…
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A fire in the laundry of a house at 5 Greaves-street, Mayfield East, yesterday morning was extinguished by Waratah and Tighe's Hill fire brigades, before much…
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Bush fires are blazing between Yarra Junction and Warburton, and the townships of Powell Town and Wesburn are declared to be in a…
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At the conclusion of an inquiry into fires on the property of T. A. Field and Company at Brungle, the Coroner found that they had been wilfully started by…
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Owing to a misunderstanding, the owner of the house in Christoe-road, Georgetown, which was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning, was reported to have been Mr…
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Six men were burned to death in a disastrous bush fire which swept along the banks of Thomson River, near Walhalla and…
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Only rain saved the devastation by lire on Friday of many small sawmilling settlements in the Dandenong Ranges and in the Gippsland district…
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A four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Sale-street, Greta, occupied by Messrs. E. and A. Newton. and owned by Mr. G. Hancock, of Cook's Hill, Newcastle, was…
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