Early Morning Blaze Railway Buildings Gutted LISMORE
Although the cause is unknown, police are of opinion that there are no suspicious circumstances associated with the destruction by fire of Billinudgel railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1938
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 42
Fire Burning for 130 Years
Fire in the bar-parlor of Warren House Inn, an isolated wayside hostelry on Dartmoor, was kindled In 1808 and has been burning…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Aero Club's Loss Fire at Auckland Wellington (N.z.)
M. Morton, a fireman, was overcome by smoke when a fire gutted the Auckland Aero Club building at Mangere yesterday: Damage is estimated at £5000. Firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Brigade Gala
A gala day organised by the Wallsend Fire Brigade to raise funds to send a team to the next fire brigades' demonstration will be held at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Liquid Fire Used by the Rebels Trenches Filled with Bodies London
Liquid fire, eye-witnesses assert, was used to-day by the Spanish Rebels on the San Mateo front…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Girls Trapped of Roof of Factory Rescued By The Fire Brigade SYDNEY
About 80 girls were trapped at lunch-time to-day on the root of the Jones and Co., Pty., Ltd. I.X.L, Condiment Company, at the comer of King-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Case For Fire Brigadesmen Chained to Jobs Is Complaint No Opportunity for Home Life Sydney
"All the fire brigade men are asking is that, instead of spending half their lives on duty they should have only to spend a third…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bedding on Fire Mother Rescued Child LISMORE
When the bedding of her cot caught fire at Numulgi Marie Mackney, 17 months, had a narrow ecape from being burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Trap Girls Helped from Roof Brigade Men Narrowly Escape Sydney
When a fire broke out in the basement of the IXL Condiment Company's building in Newtown to-day about 80 girls were trapped…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Disastrous Fire at Lake Cargelligo Residents' Fight Bank and a Row of Shops Destroyed Lake Cargelligo
Fire which raged for several hours in the main street lait night destroyed three shops and a bank and damaged two other stores, causing £10,000 damage. Fighting against hopeless odds, volunteer firefighters,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires and Frosts in England Damage To Crops LONDON
Fires are blazing by night in orchards over a great part of England in a battle with frost. The fruit blossoms all over Western…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Factory Fire Darlinghurst Damage Lamp Company's Works Sydney
Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused by a fire at the Aladdin Lamp Company's factory in William-street, Darlinghurst, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stay-in Strike American Schoolboys Teachers Barred by Fire Hoses Montreal, April 14
Eighty-eight students are staging a stay-in strike at the lowa High School a support of demand for the reinstatement of the dismissed principal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Launch in Auckland Auckland
Fifty valuable yachts and launches anchored at Kawau were endangered when a fire in a launch, threatened to explode several drums of petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Unoccupied House
Minor damage was done by fire to the bathroom of an unoccupied house in James-street, Hamilton, about noon yesterday. Newcastle and Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Destroys N.Z. Homestead Auckland
The beautiful homestead of the late Mr. K. S. Williams, at Ruatoria, has been burned to the ground. The insurances amount to more than £4000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer's Death Charred Remains in Fire BRISBANE
Police believe that the death of Jesse Emery, 34, a farmer, of Mulgeldie, between Maryborough and Gympie, resulted from a shot after he sat on a pile of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →50 Boats Endangered Launch Fire in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)
When a fire in a launch threatened to explode several drums of petrol, 50 valuable yachts and launches anchored at Kawau were endangered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Beautiful Home Destroyed in New Zealand Fire Wellington (N.z.)
The home of the late Mr. K. S. Williams, former M.H.R., was burned to the ground at Ruatoria to-day. The home, which was one of the most beautiful in New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Express Train Two Men Are Remanded Sydney
Lighted cigarettes had been placed in a towel container on the Melbourne Express, according to the Police Prosecutor at the Central Court to-day…
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