Occupants Escape in Night Attire Fire at Charlestown
Four occupants, including three children, of a two-storied weatherboard building at Charlestoen, formerly a hotel, escaped in their night attire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1936
878 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 44
Modern Fire-alarm System
Enfield, Middlesex, England, is now equipped with the most modern fire-alarm system in the world, says the "Enfield Gazette," that immediately the handle of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Home Destroyed Fire at Marks Point Early Morning Excitement
Fire completely destroyed a six-roomed cottage at Marks Point early this morning. Practically nothing was saved. The cottage, of weatherboard and iron…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Colliery Fire Old Workings Ablaze Discovery at Thornlie Pit
A fire has developed in Thornlie colliery, a small abandoned coalmine on the Mount Vincent-road, about half a mile on the East Maitland side from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Redfern Sydney
A spectacular fire in Redfern to-night destroyed the top floor of Thomas McCotter's motor-body building works. Flames, and smoke could be seen from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Racing Trotter in Fire SYDNEY
The racing trotter Terry's Pick, which was burned yesterday when stables were destroyed by fire in Redmond-street, Leichhardt; is now in the care of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trotter Burned Fire in Leichhardt Stables SYDNEY
The prominent trotter, Terry's Pick, which won the Trotters' Division of the Sydney Derby last season, was badly burned when a fire broke out in stables…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Going to Bushfire Volunteer Firemen Injured Cycle Collides with Car Sydney
Two volunteer firemen attached to the Lane Cove division were injured, one seriously, when the motor-cycle and side-car in which they were going to a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cars Destroyed in Fire Sydney
Fire which razed sheds at the rear of the residences of George Elsiey and Walter George Truelove, in Holterman-street, Crow's Nest, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wyong Fire District Rating Gosford
With the creation of a fire district at Wyong, the Erina Shire Council decided to-day to request the Board of Fire Commissioners to obtain the Minister's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House Damaged Fire Outbreak at Waratah
Three rooms in a house in Parkview-street, Waratah, were severely damaged, and the furniture in them practically destroyed, by fire which broke out in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fifty Menaced Employees in Factory Blaze Rescues by Fireman Melbourne
Almost suffocated by smoke, more than 50 employees, mostly girls, were trapped on the first floor of the leather goods factory of Creelman Bros. Pty. Ltd., in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Woman Leaps Into Policeman's Arms Fire in Brisbane Brisbane
A woman leaped 15 feet into the arms of a policeman and eight other persons escaped just in time from a fire early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →House Destroyed by Fire
A weatherboard dwelling of three rooms, owned and occupied by Mrs. A. Hampson, a widow, in Mulbring-street, Aberdare, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Preliminary Plans Tighe's Hill Fire Station
Preliminary plans of the additions to the fire brigade buildings at Tighe's Hill have been prepared and submitted to the Wickham Council for approval…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Film Fire Prevention Litigation Over Patent SYDNEY
The appeal of Mark Goldman, of Post-office Place, Melbourne, against a decision of the Commissioner of Patents in favour of granting letters patent to Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Student's Death Burned in Outhouse Fire Evidence at Inquest Melbourne
The Coroner (Mr. Tingate) to-day inquired into the death of John Stanley Watsford, 18, of Blackburn, a University undergraduate, who was burned when an…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at Weston
Weston and Kurd Fire brigades were called out to a fire at the rear of a motor garage in First-street, Weston, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Weston Fire Near Motor Garage
A quantity of old tyres and rubbish, which was burning in the yard of a motor garage owned by Messrs. C. and A. Bailey. in First-street, Weston, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Argenton Fire Partly-built Home Damaged
Slight damage was caused to a two-roomed Cottage in course of construction at William-street. Argenton, by fire, on Saturday night. Boolaroo and Cardiff Fire…
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