Preventing Plane Fires London
With a view to preventing fire after crashes, the Air Ministry has authorised the equipping of civil aircraft with a device which immediately on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1934
745 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 38
Fire Underground Queensland Coalmine No One in Workings Brisbane
Following an explosion this morning at the State coalmine at Hartley, 32 miles from Rockhampton, fire broke out underground…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Listening to Test Girl's Clothes Catch Fire Police to Rescue Sydney
When her clothes caught alight standing opposite an open fireside listening in to the Test match to-night. Rona Dolton, 15, of Willoughby, was severely burned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Solves a Problem
Several weeks ago the Health Inspector of Wallsend Council (Mr. Cunningham) reported that a house at Jesmond was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wallsend Fire Old House Destroyed
Mystery surrounds the cause of a fire which last night destroyed an old house, with its contents, at the Crescent subdivision, Wallsend, near the Heaton…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wallsend Fire Elderly Woman Saved Home Was Destroyed
Neighbours arrived just in time to save an elderly woman from serious burns in a fire at Wallsend last night. The woman was Mrs. Rosa Sophia Johnson,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Woman Saved From Fire Trapped on Verandah at Wallsend Home Destroyed
But for the presence of mind of two young men, J. Fenwick and A. Davidson, of Wallsend, last night, Mrs. Rosa Johnson, of Close-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallsend Heavy Loss Through Fire
General sympathy is felt for Mrs. Rosa S. Johnson whose home in Close-street, Wallsend, was demolished by fire on Friday night. Left with only the clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire "Epidemic" Young Wallsend Blaze Unoccupied House
It would appear as though the fire fiend is particularly active in the Wallsend district at the present time. In the third outbreak within four days, another house…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Outbreak Quelled
A detachment of firemen from Newcastle headquarters succeeded in quelling an outbreak of fire in Darby-street, Cook's Hill, before it had time to secure a hold,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Many Deaths in Huge Petrol Blaze Devastating Explosion Lighted Cigarette Started It Near Buenos Aires Buenos Aires
Three people were killed, seven more were so seriously injured that they will die, and 20 others are missing, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Only Fire Was in the Incinerator
Called to a house in Union-street, Adamstown, this morning, firemen from Headquarters Station found that a man had been burning off…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Clothing on Fire Child Burned at Hamilton West
Doris Gibson, 4, was badly burned about the groin, thigh and abdomen, when he clothes caught alight while she was playing near a fire in which papers and other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vandals in Church Bible Set on Fire MELBOURNE
Wanton damage was done by vandals who entered the Baptist Church in High-street, Northcote, this morning. The Bible was taken from the pulpit and set on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£6000 DAMAGE Casino Sawmill Blaze Joinery Works Saved Lismore
Damage estimated at approximately £6000 was caused this afternoon by a fire which gutted the sawmill owned by Piddcook Bros. Ltd. at Casino…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →C.I.B. Fire Squad Sydney
Appointed early this week, the C.I.B Fire Bureau commenced its first investigation to-day, having been instructed to inquire into a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early Morning Fire
RUINS AFTER THE FIRE which destroyed the home of Mr. R. Kable, in Unwin's Bridgeroad. St. Peters, early on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Girl Badly Burnt Nightdress Caught Fire MELBOURNE
When her flannelette nightdress caught fire at her home in Boronia yesterday, Miss Amelia Jones, 19, was seriously burned. Her mother, hearing her screams,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Family Escapes St. Peters House on Fire SYDNEY
When a wooden house at St. Peters, in which a family of five was sleeping, caught alight yesterday, the flames swept through the premises rapidly and the occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Totally Destroyed Cottage at Warner's Bay Fire on Saturday Night
A five-roomed weatherboard cottage on the waterfront at Warner's Bay was totally destroyed, with its contents, by fire on Saturday night. It was alight from…
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