Marks Point Fire Alarm
Rushing from Belmont to Marks Point yesterday to attend a fire the Belmont Fire Brigade found it to be a false alarm. A number of cars and people followed in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1935
782 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 40
Small Fire in City
A small fire broke our under the roof of Patey's building, off Newcomen-street, Newcastle, about 12.44 p.m. yesterday. Little damage was done. The fire was in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires in 1934 Newcastle District Report 261 Calls Answered
Fire brigades attended 226 fires in the Newcastle district, including Belmont; Wallsend and Cardiff, in 1934. There were 35 false alarms…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Take Care of That Fire Negligence Penalty Is £50
Campers and picnickers are reminded by the N.R.M.A. that they must take particular core when lighting camp fires, as they are…
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Refrigerator is a comparatively recent addition to the common nouns of the English language. It suggests freezing. A fire in a refrigerator seems almost as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland—Kurri—Cessnock West Maitland Fire Brigades Two Receive No Calls Annual Reports
The annual reports, dealing with the activities of fire brigades in the Maitland district last year, were made available yesterday. The reports disclosed that the…
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A building used as stables and a storeroom at the rear of Albert Edward Geary's butcher's shop at Beaumont-street, Hamilton, was severely…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sequel to Fire Woman's Arm Amputated
Mrs. Ivy Carr, the widow of Mr. John Carr, who was killed on December 2 when a wall collapsed during a fire at Cessnock, has had her left arm…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Burning Off Fire Out of Control Fighters Save Township Tamworth
During burning-off operations on Balgownie Station, the property of Mr. C. Wood, a few miles from Curlewis, this morning, the fire got out of control at…
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Early on Wednesday morning a five-roomed weatherboard cottage owned and occupied by William Wilson, of Rawson-street, Aberdare, was extensively…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Fires Stable, Hall, and House Hamilton Brigade Busy
Hamilton Fire Brigade put out three fires in Hamilton yesterday. The first, at 3 a.m., severely damaged a stable and storeroom behind a butcher's shop in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Firemen Killed Brooklyn Tenement Blaze OVER 40 Injured New York, January 2
As a climax to a series of disastrous tenement house fires, which have cost many lives in the past few months, a hulk in a crowded section of Brooklyn…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Station Gutted Struck by Lightning Tower Also Destroyed Melbourne
Although it was raining heavily, the Creswick Fire Station was burned to the ground to-day after having been struck by lightning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Damage in Ballarat Shops and Houses Destroyed Melbourne
Two shops, a garage, and two adjoining houses were burnt to the ground early to-day in one of the most destructive fires seen in…
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Headquarters Fire Brigade was called to an outbreak of fire in the waiting room of the Stockton ferry wharf (Newcastle side) at 9.50 a.m. yesterday. The blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Chief Injured His Unlucky Month
District-Officer L. C. Hurley, of the Cook's Hill Fire Station, was injured in a motor collision yesterday. He was admitted to Mater Miserieordiae Hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Fire Buildings Gutted at Ballarat BALLARAT
In the most destructive fire that the town has experienced for years, two shops, a garage, and two adjoining premises, were destroyed by fire on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Shots Fired in Swansea Chase Suspect Ran Into Lake Macquarie "Hands Up or I'll Fire," Was Command Office Safe Blown
An exciting story of a detective's chase after a suspect at Swansea on the night of December 26, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broadmeadow Grass Fire
Hamilton Fire Brigade were called out shortly before 4 o'clock this afternoon to a grass fire on the railway embankment near the Broadmeadow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grass Fires at Waratah
Waratah Fire Brigade was called to two grass fires this afternoon. The firemen were engaged in beating out the flames on the corner of Bridge…
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