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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 42
A fire swept one side of the main street in Paingil late last night. Seven shops and a boardinghouse were destroyed. The Swan Hill Fire Brigade arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A small fire on the roof of a house in Bishopgate-street, Wickham, was put out with chemical extinguishers by firemen from headquarters at Newcastle late…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police believe that a fire in a shop at Paddington to-day was caused by a boy who stood at the window with a magnifying glass, and directed the sun's rays on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Pan American Airways flying boat, Samoan Clipper, has been burned at sea, and Captain Edwin Musick and his crew of six are dead. Wreckage of the flying-boat has been found 14 miles north-west of Pago Pago to where the Clipper was returning when an oil-leak developed on her first flight with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several panels of fencing were damaged by a grass fire at Wallsend yesterday. The fire broke out on the northern side of the railway and tramway cutting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Leisure-time jobs can be both pleasant and profitable, and here is one which will answer to both descriptions. Fire-screens are quite an important feature…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →About 2.30 a.m. to-day a fire broke out in the engine room of the Trundle electric lighting company. No water is laid on in the town…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A bush Ore advancing in the direction of Cessnock No. 2 Colliery this afternoon was stopped by Cessnock Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Now that the heat of summer brings in the bush-fire season, it is important to realise that the most successful way to combat this menace is to exercise…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at £40,000 was caused early to-day by a fire which gutted the Pizzey, Pty., Ltd. building, Wilmot-street, City…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While research was proceeding, practically the highest efficiency in the prevention of aeroplanes catching lire in midair had been reached already,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at £7000 was caused by a fire which broke out in the Trundle Electric Lighting Company's building early this morning. In the building were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Several conflicting theories have been advanced as to the cause of the disaster which overtook Pan American Airways' flying-boat Samoan Clipper, and resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A house was set on fire by lighting and telephonic and electric light services suffered a block out for 20 minutes lost night during the height…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire in a hairdresser's shop occupied by C. P. Moore on the premises of the Newcastle Hotel, Market-street, Newcastle about 5 p.m. on Saturday was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. H. Wells, of Hamilton, died in hospital last night from burns received after her clothes had caught alight at her home. Her two young sons were filling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Edward William Pope, 42, of Rose Bay, received burns to the hands and armsearly this morning, when a fire severely damaged garage and engineering works…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Only strenuous efforts by firemen prevented a fire which gutted the building of Pizzey Pty. Ltd., in Wilmot-street, early yesterday, from destroying the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Twenty-three firemen were overcome by smoke and escaping gas to-day while fighting a fire in the basement of Linden Court Arcade, Market-street, almost on the Castlereagh-street corner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A 15-acre bush-fire swept through scrub-land between Cessnock and Bellbird this afternoon. Cessnock Fire Brigade confined the…
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