50,000 Watch Fire in Sydney Blaze Near Circular Quay Sydney
When a fire broke out shortly after 9 a.m. to-day on the top floor or Crane Building. Crane Place, Circular Quay, 20 employees had to dash for…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 36
Cessnock Car on Fire
James Reid, of Paxton, in swerving a car to avoid straying cattle early yesterday morning, left the road at Paxton, and struck a telegraph pole. The car…
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With the wreckage of their school falling in on them, between five hundred and a thousand pupils were killed in…
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Some of the hundreds of yards of hose used in fighting the fire in Crane-place Sydney. The 50 firemen on the job found difficulty in gelling at the blaze…
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A fire in the Crane Building, Crane Place, to-day, destroyed most of the top floor. It won conned to the tap two floors, but the two floors below suffered…
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A problem, apart, from fire-fighting, confronted the firemen outside Grane Building, Crane-place, Sydney, when a fire by drant hurst. A huge geyser of watch was thrown into the sir, and this fire man rushed into adjust the hydrant…
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As a result of the handing over to Station Officer W. Penman of a No. 50 motor hose carriage yesterday morning, the Maitland Fire Station is now better equipped than…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ocean Baths Panorama School Swimmers: Fire in Sydney Building
Panoramic view of Newcastle Ocean Baths, showing the large company of swimmer and spectators at the carnival of Newcastle District Primary Schools held yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sent to Gaol Head of Fire Brigade BERLIN, March 20
The ex-Burgomaster of Langenhahn has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for incendiarism. He was head of the fire brigade, which is said not to have…
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West Maitland Fire Brigade was called this afternoon to an outbreak in the hayshed on Mr. T. Lynch's farm at Morpeth…
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The sequel to the story of the man who broke a fire alarm to call the brigade, following a row at a party which he had attended. was told in Melbourne recently…
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The crew of 72 were rescued by lifeboat from the British steamer Marie Moller (4877 tons), in which a fire broke out when the vessel, which was bound…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Power Failure Woy Woy to Gloucester Fire at Zara-street Newcastle Industries Idle
The whole of the electricity system from Woy Woy to Gloucester, including Newcastle and Maitland districts, was out of commission for a little over an…
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Wickham fire station, which is no longer required by the New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners, was officially closed yesterday. The building was…
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Five tons of hay and part of the shed in which it was stored on the farm of Mr. Thomas Christopher Lynch, at Brisbane-fields, near Morpeth, were destroyed by…
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A large quantity of contaminated cheese from the Government cool stores, which were destroyed by fire in January, have been sold in shops for human…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Crew Rescued British Steamer on Fire Large Crowds See Rescue London, March 22
The crew of 72 were resumed by a lifeboat from the British stealer Marie Moller, in which fire broke out when the vessel which was bound for Liverpool…
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Cessnock's fire engine was tested on the road to-day by Motor Inspector Pearse. of Newcastle. The tests disclosed the motor to be in first-class…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Council News Memories of Big Fire Council Perturbed at or Tanks
Memories of the fire on the steamer British Honor caused aldermen at Carrington Council last night to question the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Brigade Had to Be Called Taking Body From a Flour Mill Sydney
Western Suburbs ambulance men and senior fire officials to-day combined in a dramatic effort to brine to the ground the body of a man…
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