Fire in Saskatchewan Vancouver, September 18
Reports from Saskatoon state that 1200 men, spread alone a 10-mile front, are lighting a forest fire that is threatening 10 towns in Northern Saskatchewan…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 36
£250,000 Fire in Vienna Vienna, September 18
A battalion of infantry, firemen, and police, vainly fought a fire in the rotunda of Vienna's Crystal Palace, which was built in 1873 for the International…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Home Destroyed by Fire Sydney
Glosofotto Zapplo, an Italian, early to-day rescued h[?] wife and four children from their blazing home in Alice-street, Turramurra…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pawed Master Dog Gives Fire Alarm
By pawing its sleeping master's face a dog saved a man and his three children when fire broke out at Kimpton, near Andover (Hants), recently. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House on Fire Italian Family's Escape SYDNEY
An Italian family had a narrow escape early to-day, when their home in Alice-street, Turramurra, was destroyed. Giosofotto Zappio found his room filled…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire at Manly School No Panic Among Children Sydney
When a fire broke out in a weatherboard section of the West Manly Public School to-day. 100 children marched out into the playground without…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Factory Blaze Newtown Upholsterer's Loss SYDNEY
Damage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused to-night when a fire broke out in the factory of W. Brisby, upholsterer, in Newtown, and severely…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire at School Sydney
When a fire broke out suddenly to-day in the weatherboard wing of the Manly West Public School, 100 children were marched out by their teachers without…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Typists Rush From Sydney Building Fire Caused Stir Sydney
Forty city typists figured in a dramatic escape from the upper floors of Lombard Chambers, Pitt street, Sydney, to-day, alter on outbreak of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Out of Control Fire Sweeps Oil Plant £1,250,000 Damage in U.S. San Francisco, September 23
A fire, which is raging uncontrolled in a big plant of the Standard Oil Company in California, at one stage threatened the entire industrial district…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bombs Mangle Children New Burst of Horror at Hankow Wounded Trapped in Fires in Slum Quarter London
Hankow was the chief sufferer from Japanese "frightfulness" to-day. Six air raiders escorted by fighting 'planes dropped bombs. They failed to hit any military objectives including the arsenal. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Led to Safety Typists Perturbed by Fire Pitt-street Outbreak Sydney
Forty typists were led to safety by firemen, who put out a fire in Lombard Chambers, Pitt-street, to-day. The fire originated in the darkroom of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fireman on Spot Small Blaze at Racecourse
Smouldering planks which were being fanned into a small blaze on the main public grandstand in the Paddock at Newcastle racecourse on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Hotel Chimney
A fire in a chimney of the Glasgow House Hotel, Carrington, caused excitement about 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Fire brigades from Carrington…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dock Blaze Big Store House Gutted Cockatoo Island Steamer Saved by Sea Cadets SYDNEY
Damage estimated at £25,000 was caused to-day when a fire at Cockatoo Island gutted a three-storied store house. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cockatoo Dock Fire Damage Estimate Increased Sydney
"It does not appear to us that there are any suspicious circumstances surrounding the fire at Cockatoo Dockyard yesterday," said Mr. N. Frazer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Not Seen Brisbane Suburban Home Destroyed SYDNEY
Residents of Milton awakened this morning to find a house owned by Mrs. James Barry razed by fire. No one had observed the outbreak, although the house…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Narara Fire Racing Dogs Menaced Trees Damaged at State Nursery Gosford
A string of valuable greyhounds and the home of their owner, Mr. H. Oades, of Narara, were menaced by a fire which destroyed 50 pine trees at the Narara…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dockyard Fire No Clue to Cause Management Has No Suspicions Sydney
Police and private inquiries into the fire at Cockatoo Dock yesterday afternoon have failed to find any clue which might help indicate the cause…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Orchards Threatened Springfield Bush Fire GOSFORD
Three orchard properties were threatened with destruction this afternoon when a bush fire raced through dense country at Springfield…
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