Leap to Death in Fire Boy Could Have Been Saved SYDNEY
William Redmond 13 must have jumped to death from the blazing Wentworth Hotel last nights as the first fire brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1938
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 42
Blayney Fire Charge Blayney
Bail of £500 was allowed John Thomas Heed when he was remanded at the Blayney Police Court to-day on a charge of having maliciously set fire to a house…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Inquire Into Big Fire At Murrurundi MURRURUNDI
Hundreds of men and women, clad in night attire and overcoats, early to-day saw a fire destroy two shops in the main business section of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shops Destroyed Fire at Murrurundi Damage Estimated at £4000 MURRURUNDI
Two shops in the main shopping centre in Mayne-street, Murrurundi, were completely destroyed with their contents by fire about 5 o'clock this morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cessnock Buckets Used Quell Bellbird Fire
There was an outbreak of fire in a six-roomed weatherboard cottage in Tennant-road, Bellbird, last night. The house was owned and occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Bucket Brigade's Good Work At Bellbird Fire
A bucket brigade saved a Bellbird home from complete destruction by fire last night. The fire occurred at the home of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Woman Victim of Hotel Fire Sydney
Mrs. Mary Byers, 82. of Forbes who was severely burned in the Wentworth Hotel blaze early last week, died from her injuries last night in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MAITLAND—CESSNOCK—KURRI West Maitland Little Damage Fire at Brick Yards
Little damage was caused by a fire which broke out in the drying room over a large kiln of the Thornton Brick Works on Saturday afternoon. West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Extensive Damage Fire in Queensland Town Hotel, Theatre and Shops Brisbane
A fire at Winton late last night destroyed half the main business block of the town. Damage was estimated at £18,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Second Hotel Fire Death Sydney
Mrs. Mary Byers 82, who was badly burned in the Wentworth Hotel fire last week, died in Sydney Hospital late last night. William Robert Redmond, 13,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire on Freighter Outbreak in Mid-Pacific SYDNEY
Officers and crew of the freighter City of Winchester had to fight a fire for nearly an hour in the mid-Pacific. Members of the crew on arrival in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Suggested Transfer of Fire Brigade Heaquarters Sydney
Removal of fire brigade headquarters from Castleragh-street to the new police building to be erected in Brilsbane-street has been proposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →HOLDS V.C. in Fire Brigade London, September 17
After 28 years' service, Mr. Leonard Alfred Shearman, assistant superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, has retired. He Is the holder of the V.C…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Saved School Passer-by Gave Fire Alarm SYDNEY
A fire broke out in the Naremburn public school. Willoughby to-day, but the action of passe[?]by in giving the alarm promptly enabled the brigades to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Family's Escape Fire Destroys South Lismore Cottage LISMORE
A man, his wife, and four young children narrowly escaped when fire gutted a five-roomed weatherboard cottage at Elliott-road, South Lismore, early…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Benzine Found Lismore Fire Inquiry Questions About Previous Outbreaks Limore
Statements that fires has occurred on premises occupied by him on four occasions in Queensland towns in the last 24 years, were made by George Malouf, a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fight Against Bush Fires Campaign To Check Outbreaks SYDNEY
"Big fires from little matches grow." is the warning of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee. which has launched an intense publicity…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Truck on Fire Man Risks Death to Warn Driver BRISBANE
Two men and valuable horses were saved from possible death to-day by Jack Scott, a well-known rough rider, who olambered over 20 trucks on a fast-moving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of Arson Lismore Draper Sent for Trial Heard of Fire in Brisbane Lismore
George Malouf was committed for trial on a charge of arson at Lismore to-day at an inquiry into a fire at his drapery store in Woodlark-street, Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Tragedy Owner of Flats Suffocates Had Warned Others Brisbane
William Cuthbert Dodds, 66, married, owner of Taishan Flats, Breakfast Creek, lost his life when a fire occurred in the building early this morning…
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