Fire Menaces Home Smart Save at Hamilton
Flames approached to within 20 ft. of a house in Hudsonstreet, Hamilton, before they were put out by Hamilton Fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1936
878 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 44
MAITLAND—CESSNOCK—KURRI West Maitland Gruelling Fight Grass Fire at Oakhampton Home in Danger
The residents of Oakhampton battled for hours yesterday morning with a fire which escaped control during burning off operations at Oakhampton. The flames…
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Although in a leaser degree than was experienced throughout the districts last week, fireman encountered a recurrence of bush fires in the suburbs yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →South Coast Bush Fires Wollongong
Fierce bush fires are raging on the Illawarra Mountains, At Unanderra a fire went close to a wireless station and a residence, but was beaten back, Several…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cessnock Bush Fires Brigade Busy at Paxton
Bush fires broke out in several parts of the Cessnock district yesterday, but they were not of large dimensions; and were confined mostly to scrub land…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →District Ringed By Bush Fires Cardiff Works Menaced Spectacular Blaze in Hills at Merewether
A ring of bushfires encircled Newcastle this afternoon and many district fire brigades were out fighting back flames which were threatening homes and colliery properties. One of the most serious outbreaks occurred at Cardiff where…
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Bush fires which rave been burning around Kurri for the past fortnight freshened up to-day fanned by a strong westerly wind…
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Bush fires broke out on the outskirts of Weit Wallsend to-day, and enveloped the district thickly in smoke…
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Driven by the north-westerly wind a bushfire with a wide front menaced the outer buildings of the Cardiff workshops…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Serious Blaze on Blue Mountains S.O.S. Sent to Sydney Sydney
Shortly after two o'clock to-day a bush fire, which all the morning had bee removing its way through the Grose Valley from Fauconbridge, reached the…
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A grass fire swept through Several paddocks along the Aberglasslyn road, between Rutherford and Oakhampton, yesterday afternoon. Several acres of grass…
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All that was left of the Business Section at Bandon, an Oregon coastal town, after a forest fire, had swept through. Nine persons last their lives…
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The flames continued this afternoon to spread in some directions and bucket brigades were formed from the creek to the homes. With a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blazing Wax Two Women Badly Burned Fitzroy Factory Fire Melbourne
Two women may die as a result of a fire in the factory of Domino Polishes Pty., Ltd., North Fitzroy, to-night. A quantity of molten wax burst into flames,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Spectacular Bushfires Raging In The Near Merewether This Afternoon
A scene during the height of the huge bush fire in Murdering Gully near Merewether this afternoon. The flames covered a wide area and there grave fears for several small properties and colliery premises. Smoke from the fires blotted out the headlands south of Merewether. The heat from the bush firs to-day was terrific and fire fighters had an unenviable…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Heat Throughout the State Bushfires and Thick Smoke Haze Sydney
The maximum temperature in Sydney to-day was 97.1 degrees at 1.10 p.m. This was the highest November recording for eight years…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bush Fires Sweep District Fierce Outbreaks Houses and Property in Danger Serious Damage Averted Smoke Haze Envelops City and Coalfields
Assuming even more serious proportions than the severe outbreaks last week, bush fires raged through the Newcastle and Coalfields districts yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Grass Fire Near Steel Works
The fire stall at the Steel Works was called out this afternoon to extinguish some blazing grassland on the outskirts of the works. As the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Fires in Sydney Wahroonga Home Destroyed Sydney
Sydney was again encircled by bushfires to-day, and the watchroom staff at fire brigade headquarters had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires Devastate Bush Areas on All Sides of Newcastle
From the golf course adjacent to the Steel Works, this photograph was taken yesterday afternoon, showing a devastating fire raging on the northern side of the river, and throwing a great pall of smoke over the countryside. Inset is shown the smoke blowing out to sea from a raging fire on the hillside to the south of Merewether…
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