Coalfield Fires Hard Day's Fight But No Damage
Scrub and grass fires, fanned by the wind, kept the Coalfields fire brigades busy from midday till well after dark on Saturday. The firemen could not recall…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1938
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60 Fires in Areas Around Sydney Sydney
Sixty fires were blazing in and around Sydney at 2 p.m. and 150 firemen were striving to prevent them spreading…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wash-house on Fire at Jesmond
A spark from a copper, which had just been lit, set fire to a detached wash-house at Margaret-street, Jesmond. to-day. The fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Repairs Damage Toll of Gale and Fires Disastrous Week-end
The Newcastle district to-day sat back and licked the wounds and smarting injuries which the 60 m.p.h. gale and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fires Turned Back Blue Mountains Fight Only One House Slightly Damaged Sydney
More than 40 hoses menaced by the bush fires which raged on the Blue Mountains the week-end were saved. The valleys surrounding Katoomba presented…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Day of Anxiety Maitland District Homes in Danger Bucket Brigades Heroes of the Fires
Stirred from a desultory burning into raging life by the gale which sprang up early on Saturday, fires swept on outlying…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fires Followed Fury of Saturday's Gale 75-Mile Gale Buffets Sydney Flying Debris Injures 100; Property Damage Considerable Metropolitan Firemen Have Busy Day United Attack Turns Back Fires from Blue Mountains Homes SYDNEY
The westerly gale, which reached a velocity yesterday of 75 miles an hour, gave Sydney and the suburbs the worst buffeting they have had for many years. Practically every suburb reported damage…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pathetic Plight Families at Jesmond Camp Fire Peril: One Home Destroyed
The fire fiend stalked through the unemployed camp at Jesmond on Saturday afternoon. One house was burnt to the ground; a family living in another…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Destroys 20 Homes Gosford District Swept Fruit Crops Ruined Gosford
Damage in the Central Coast area—from the Hawkesbury to Wyong—through the disastrous bush fires and the 70 mile-an-hour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires Checked at West Wallsend
Residents near the Seaham No 2 colliery at West Wallsend again spent an anxious day yesterday when a further outbreak or fire occurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Check of Damage Week-end Bush Fires Many Homes Lost Sudden End to Ettalong Picnic SYDNEY
A check of damage done by bush fires daring the week-end showed that 20 houses had been destroyed between the Hawkesbury River and Woy Woy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Five Houses in Danger Bush Fire at New Lambton Heights Spectacle for Whole District Firemen Called Out Twice
Firemen from New Lambton fought for more than four hours last night to extinguish a bush fire which threatened five houses…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brigades Called to Grass Fires
Newcastle and Pighe's Hill fire brigades each received a call to suburban fires to-day but no damage to property was reported…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Aberdare
The Fire Brigade received a call to a fire in a weatherboard cottage in Congewai-street, Aberdare, yesterday morning, owned and occupied by John Greig. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire on Park
The West Maitland Fire Brigade was called early yesterday afternoon to a grass fire on the West Maitland Park. About an acre of grass was alight. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Glass Works Fire Sydney
It was officially announced to-day that the damage caused by fire at the Australian Glass Manufacturers' Company's works at Waterloo yesterday was covered…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Entrance Boarding House Burnt WYONG
A 16-roomed boarding-house at The Entrance, owned by George Gall, of East Mayfield and occupied by H. Batchelor, was totally destroyed by a fire, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All-day Fight Bush Fire at Ocean Beach GOSFORD
Over 50 volunteers, men from two fire brigades, and council employees rushed from Woy Woy to Ocean Beach, and fought a bush fire all day. It threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two Small Fires at Wallsend
Bush fires continued on the outskirts of Wallsend yesterday, but they were not responsible for two calls to Wallsend Fire Brigade yesterday afternoon—one at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fires Still Raging Vacy Farmers' Bad Time
Bush fires are still burning in outlying parts of the Maitland district and are creeping towards Vacy…
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