Fire on Air Liner Captain Warns Passengers DELHI, September 29
Captain J. R. Patrick, of Sydney, was among the passengers aboard the air liner Athena, which look fire at Karachi. The pilot, Captain Wilson, who was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1936
878 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 44
OXYGEN & Not Air Why Air Liner Caught Fire Delhi
It is understood that it was stated in evidence at the inquiry into the loss by fire of the airliner Athena, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Out in Three Hours Fire on New Zealand Ship Wellington (N.z.)
Three hours' work with a fire extinguisber sufficed to subdue the fire on the Wingatul. The damage was confined to the charring of a bulkhead between a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bushfires at Lake Home in Danger Near Teralba
For two days bushfires have raged in the bush around Teralba, Blackalls, Toronto and Stockton. In only one case, at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush-fires Over Wide Area
Bush fires, caused by the recent spell of hot weather, were still burning over a wide area in the Newcastle district to-day. The photograph shows firemen, assisted by volunteers, fighting flames on the outskirts of Tesalba…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires at the Lake Fanned by Westerly
At Teralba, where a big bush fire raged early last night, and homes were saved by a timely change in the wind, a considerable area of unoccupied…
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When a fire which was burning old motor parts and tyres at the rear of Kennedy's garage, Main-road, Speera Point, became uncontrollable yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Ravages Teralba Bush
Fanned by a westerly Breeze, the scrub fire is shown as it swept over the hills surrounding Teralba yesterday afternoon, leaving at trial of blackened timber. Property damage was averted by a narrow margin…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire Menaces Colliery at Teralba
Firemen and 50 volunteers fought for three hours yesterday afternoon to protect the outskirts of Teralba and the Northern Extended Colliery from a fierce scrub fire. With no supply of water available they were forced to attack the flames with branches and wet bags. The ferocity of the out break as it approached the colliery is graphically illustrated by these photographs taken when the fire was at it height…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →House Destroyed by Fire Occupants' Narrow Escape Sydney
Their house alight from front to back, five members of a Rose Bay family early this morning found themselves almost entirely cut off by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scrub Alight Fierce Fire Threatens Teralba District Volunteers Aid Firemen
Teralba Fire Brigade, assisted by 50 volunteers, fought a fierce scrub fire which raged on a three-quarter mile front around Teralba and the Northern Extended…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Air Liner Fire Oxygen Instead of Air Evidence at Inquiry Delhi, September 30
It is understood that it, was stated in evidence it the inquiry into the loss by fire of the airliner Athena that the cylinder used to start the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sydney Ringed with Bushfires Sydney
The metropolitan area was practically ringed with bushfires to-day. Brigade, answered 35 calls up till 2 p.m. Some of the outbreak, are so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Bush Fires Temperatures Up to 94 Degrees
There were several small bush fires in the scrub at South Cessnock and East Cessnock yesterday, while in the heavily timbered country in the Mount View…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Early Morning Fires Machinery Damaged
Firemen from Newcastle East and Headquarters brigades fought two carly morning fires to-day, making good saves in each case…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires in Gosford District Gosford
An extensive bush fire raged to-night on both sides of the Pacific Highway, at Moonee Moonee. There are no homes in the path of the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →From Fire Wife Rescued Will
Eight thousand pounds has now come to a widow and nine children through a will that was torn up and thrown into the fire by an angry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Herald Stop Press Early Morning Fire
A fire which was discovered in a large galvanised iron building at the rear of 487 Hunter-street West early this morning threatened to do serious…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Air Liner Fire Bombay, October 2
It was stated at the inquiry, which was held in camera, that a loss of £30,000 was involved in the fire which destroyed the air liner Athena…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mine Threatened West Wallsend Area Fire Wind Again to Rescue
Although considerably less extensive, a bush fire threatened Linton's Borehole colliery, in the West Wallsend district, yesterday afternoon. It was quelled with…
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