Solidified Petrol Aleviate Risk of Fire Safety for Cars
For many years chemists and fuel engineers in many lands have tried to develop a process for converting the highly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1935
782 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 40
Extensive Damage Fire at Murwillumbah MURWILLUMBAH
The Club House Hotel and a wooden shop were destroyed by fire early this morning. Two brick shops were badly damaged. The loss is assessed at £6000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Fire in Film Studio London
A fire which broke out to-day in film studios at Twickenham did damage estimated at £100,000. It caused an interruption of the train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Recovered From Big Fire Heavy Salvage Job Sydney
Approximately £60,000 worm of wool has now been recovered from the ruins of the Goldsbrough Mort store fire. That is the value, after…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trace of Fire Wreckage of Air Liner Committee Reports Naval Search Abandoned SYDNEY
The fact that there was evidence of a small fire on part of the wreckage washed ashore from the air liner Loina, which disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Destructive Fire Sydney
Spreading with remarkable rapidity, fire did considerable damage this afternoon in a three-floored building in Bathurst-street, City…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Disastrous Fire Fraser Island Timber Burnt MARYBOROUGH
A big bush fire is raging on Fraser Island. Millions of superficial feet of valuable hardwood timber are threatened with destruction. The lighthousekeeper at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire in London Electric Trains Endangered LONDON, October 29
A fire which broke out to-day in some film studios at Twickenham, South London, caused an interruption in the train service on the southern electric line…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rapid Settlement of Claims Paying Insurance on Morts Wool Fire Sydney
Rarely has New South Wales had such striking evidence of the strength of its financial structure as has been shown in the settlement of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waterloo Blaze Three Men and Girl Injured Sydney
Three men were burned and a girl injured when a fire broke out in a picture-frame manufacturing company in Botany-road, Waterloo, this after-noon…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Damaged by Fire Brisbane Shoe Store BRISBANE
Extensive damage was suffered by the Brisbane branch of the Sydney boot and shoe store of Fostar's Shoes Ltd., when a fire broke out in the premises this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West End Fire Shop Gutted: Two Others Damaged Firemen Work Hard
For about an hour early yesterday morning, Newcastle and Hamilton Fire Brigades fought a fire which practically gutted a lock-up shop in Hunter-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destroyed by Fire Salvation Army Building Spark Ignited Waste Paper Sydney
The sorting shed at the Salvation Army Men's Home, St. Peters, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. The fire was caused by a spark from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Zealand Fire Nine Buildings Destroyed Wellington (N.z.)
Damage, estimated at £10,000 was caused early this morning in the most disastrous fire in the history of Westport. A warehouse, a hotel, five shops, a dance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EXPLOSION Garage Store Shattered Residents Alarmed Blaze Near Trades Hall
A spectacular explosion in a garage and oil store at the rear of the Trades Hall shattered the roof and walls, and almost demolished a motor-lorry about…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Explosion and Fire at Garage
All that remained the morning of a garage near the Trades Halt after a fire last night, night was followed by an expiation when the petrol lank of a motor lorry burst. One wall was blown out and the roof collapsed. Inset—the rear of the damaged motor lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Explosion and Fire Motor Garage Wrecked Firemen's Task
Hearing on explosion about a hundred yards from the station last night. firemen at headquarters ran out to see one of the walls of a garage rock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigades Katoomba Demonstration Ten Teams From Newcastle
Fire brigade teams of the Newcastle district Which have entered in the events to be contested at the Volunteer Fire Brigades' Demonstration to be held at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Smoke From Domestic Fires
In view of the meeting of the National Smoke Abatement Society at Bristol (says the "Colliery Guardian"). it is interesting to note that the Coal Utilisation…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Fire at Newcastle Garage
Devastation caused by the explosion of benzine in an oil store and garage near the Newcastle Trades Hall on Thursday night…
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