Cessnock Fewer Fires Cessnock Brigade's Report
The annual report reviewing the services of the five brigades in the Cessnock are district was made available yesterday by Station-officer J. F. Danvers, of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 42
Accidents and Fires in Sydney Sydney
Many accidents marred Sydney's gayest New Year's Eve revelries lost night and the ambulance had its busiest night for years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →4213 OUTBREAKS Year's Fires in N.S.W. SYDNEY
This year fire brigades attended 2908 on breaks in the metropolitan area, and 1305 in country districts. There were six big fires in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Early Fire in the New Year Outbreak in Cottage at Cessnock
Cessnock Fire Brigade activities commenced early in the New Year. At 4.45 a.m. to-day it received its first call, but firemen learned on their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland and District West Maitland Fire Brigades No Serious Outbreaks Activities for 12 MONTHS
The nine brigades in the Maitland and Kurri Kurri fire districts turned out to 4½ firs last year, against 87 for 1936. The annual report dealing with the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →4479 ACCIDENTS Ambulance Travels 168,788 Miles Figures for the Year Fire Brigade Gets 240 Calls
Newcastle Ambulance attended 4479 accidents in Newcastle and suburbs between January 1 and December 31, 1937. In addition 5251 persons were treated at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Fire in Cottage
A fire broke out in the lounge room of a weatherboard cottage owned by Mr. Thomas Stephenson, and occupied by Mr. Joseph Hay, in Anne-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Paxton Cottage Damaged by Fire
Three rooms of an unoccupied weather-board cottage at Paxton, the property of the executors of the late Mr. Arthur Purely, were destroyed by fire early…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grass Fire Near Railway Bridge
Wallsend Fire Brigade's first call for 1938, at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday, was for an outbreak in dried grass, between the tram-line and Newcastle-Wallsend Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Fires in a House Police Investigate At Paxton
Police investigated to-day a report that two fires had occurred in a house at Paxton early yesterday. The weatherboard house where the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire On Mountain Horses Have Party
A STRIKING PICTURE of a huge bushfire which ravaged the picturesque Table Mountain, that towers over Capetown. Two Hundred beaters failed to save acres of beautiful bush and scrub. JAPANESE STORM-TROOPERS started a new fashion in China when they half-undressed to land in Hangchow Bay, making a surprise attack on the Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Window Broken Basket Bomb in Fire Alarm Box SYDNEY
A plateglass window of a chemist's shop at Miller's Point was shattered when a basket bomb, which had been placed in a fire alarm box, exploded last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →East Maitland Shed Damaged by Fire
A fire broke out in a large shed at the rear of premises occupied by Mr. F. J. Dinter, of Little William-street, East Maitland, yesterday afternoon. The…
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A lavatory and a quantity of grass and rubbish at the rear of Messrs. Swan, Murray and Hain's premises in West Maitland were destroyed by fire yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in Theatre in Sydney Sydney
About 30 firemen from five brigades, assisted by passers-by, fought for an hour and a half a fire which broke out early to-day in the rear portion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Manilla Fire Inquiry No Suspicious Circumstances TAMWORTH
At the Coroner's inquiry at Manilla, into a fire at the residence of C. Davis, of Manilla, on December 31. Detective-Sergeant C. J. Delaney, chief of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Five Premises Gutted Fire in Queensland Town GLADSTONE
Five promises were destroyed by fire at 9.30 o'clock this morning. The fire broke out in the warehouse of H. and J. Friend Ltd., which was gutted. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Persistence at Hotel Licensee Had to Fire Pistol Sydney
Two men who were seen three times early to-day acting suspiciously in the yard of the Hotel Albury in Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, were scared away…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Grass Fire at Cessnock
A fire in grasslands near the Allandale Road, Cessnock, this afternoon swept through part of the Cessnock Cemetery before it was checked by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drake's Drum Saved From Fire London
Drake's Drum, which, legend says, rolls a warning note when England is in danger, was saved from a fire at Buckland Abbey, Devon, which was once…
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