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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 42
Five insurgent 'planes bombed Alicante again to-day, killing 17 persons, including a child and nine women…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A new fire engine with a pumping capacity of between 300 and 400 gallons of water a minute arrived in Newcastle yesterday morning for the Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A small fire at Carson's fruit shop at 134a Beaumont-street, Hamilton, last night, was extinguished by Hamilton and Headquarters Fire Brigades with six hand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boys who started a fire in a disused Kincheliffe shaft of Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie Ltd., to smoke out pigeons, smoked out 65 men from their work, and caused…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Panic-stricken women in brightly-hued pyjamas pleaded with firemen to save them early to-day when a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A spectacular fire at West Mattland early this morning was attended by the West and East Maitland Fire Brigades. It was a large ha[?]shed and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although they were in no danger of the fire spreading, occupants of a nine-floor building of flats in King's Cross early this morning pleaded with firemen from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The small and entirely British-owned port of Gandia, 40 miles south of Valencia, was bombed at midnight. A British dredge was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →About 2 a.m. to-day the Kurri Fire Brigade received a call to the bakery department of the Kurri Cooperative Store…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A preliminary inquiry into the burning of the empty Stockton passenger ferry Unit, at Newcastle on June 1, was held yesterday by the Harbour Master…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Considerable damage occurred when a defect in the central heating control caused a fire in the Stock Exchange this afternoon. Most of the damage was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Station Officer J. Brunty and Fireman S. Brogden cleaning the new engine at Hamilton Fire Station…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →When smoke was noticed issuing from the ventilators and under the eaves of the Kurri Kurri Co-operative Society's bakehouse behind the main store shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →When portion of a brick wall collapsed at the height of a city fire to-night, Arthur Callaghan and Sid Hayes had narrow escapes…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Andrew Rae, a young engineer, who received shocking injuries when the ferry steamer Bellubera caught fire in November, 1936, will be discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which swept through two building at Stawell-street, Richmond, to-day, gutting the premises, one of which was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The crew of six of an R.A.F. bomber had a remarkable escape, to which the coolness and resource of the pilot contributed, when their 'plane burst into flumes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire broke out in the old workings of New Greta colliery at Greta at the week-end. The mine is owned by Excelsior Collieries Ltd., and has been abandoned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →George Gibson, of Five Dock, and Leo Villiers, of Rose Bay, had a narrow escape when a fire destroyed a 32ft. cabin cruiser on the harbour to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An 80 years old woman, Miss M. MacDonald was burned to death in a fire at Carlton early to-day [?]…
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