Bush Fire Facts
When the forest or bush fire is extensive many social and economic values also go up in smoke. Opportunities for employment of labour in forest industries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1938
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 42
To Save Cockatoo Fire Brigade's Big Ladder Used SYDNEY
The Fire Brigade's largest ladder was used to-day to rescue a cockatoo from a tree at Globe. A chain attached to one of the cockatoo's legs had become caught…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON—Week by Week (Special Correspondent: Air Mail.) Gramophone Records in Blaze LONDON, December 31, 1937
A disastrous fire at a large gramophone shop, in which a watchman lost his life and 100,000 gramophone records were destroyed, has scarred the face of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on Cruiser Sabotage Plot Suspected LONDON, January 18
Sabotage is suspected in connection with a fire in the hangar aboard the cruiser Birmingham at Portsmouth dockyard on Saturday owing to the discovery…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Beer Famine Was Averted Last Barrel Removed Before Fire Collarenebri
An ice factory and freezing works in Herbert-street. Collarenebri, were totally destroyed by fire at 11.30 last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Warders Hold Fire Youth Runs from Gaol Outdistanced Pursuers Melbourne
By scaling a fence, and then a 12ft. outer wall, Gordon Orms, 17, escaped from Pontridge Gaol to-day. Warders refrained from firing, because…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →17 Bodies Recovered After Fire at Canadian College Thirteen Are Missing; Twenty in Hospital Students Crashed On Ice In Rush To Escape St. Hyacinthe (Quebec)
Seventeen bodies have been recovered and at least 13 are missing after a fire in the Sacred Heart College. Twenty have been admitted to hospital seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Homes Destroyed by Bush Fires Others Threatened in Victoria Melbourne
Bush fires, raging in the ranges and the hills round Melbourne have destroyed two homes and are threatening many others. To-night firemen and hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelaide Hostel Fire Adelaide
A fire at the People's Palace Hostel, conducted by the Salvation Army, early to-day, caused £5000 damage. The upper story was gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Two Fires in House at Paxton Open Finding by Coroner
Within four hours, two fires occurred in an unoccupied house at Francis-street, Paxton, in the early morning of January…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Brigade's Annual Report Sydney
There were 1015 fewer fire calls recorded in Sydney and suburbs last year than in 1936, but of the total of 3971 calls. 1102 were false alarms…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Four Shops Destroyed Fire in Victorian Town Man's Jump for Safety Melbourne
Damage estimated at £8000 was caused by a fire which destroyed four shops and their contents at Morumburra this morning, All the shops were of weatherboard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pupils Trapped Many Perish in School Fire 17 Bodies Recovered St. Hyacinthe (Quebec), January 18
Possibly 30 people, most of whom are boys, are dead as a result of a fire in the Sacred Heart College. Seventeen bodies have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Paxton Fires Open Verdict Returned
The fires which occurred within a few hours of each other in a cottage in Francis-street, Paxton, were investigated at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday by…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire at German Aerodrome Berlin, January 19
A fire broke out to-day in a new building at the Tempelhof aerodrome. The cause is unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →19 Dead in School Fire St. Hyacinthe (Quebec), Jan. 19
It is now know that 19 are dead as a result of the fire in the Sacred Heart College early yesterday morning. Twenty-six people are still missing…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bush Fire Death New Zealand Ranges Swept Wellington (N.z.)
Bush fires are sweeping along the Marchant Range and threatening settlers in the Tauherenikau Valley. William Baker, 78, who lived alone in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bakery Wrecked Fire After Explosion Wellington (N.z.)
All explosion thought to be due to gases, wrecked the Walhi bakery early yesterday morning. The five-ton oven front was blown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Foundry Fire Damage in Melbourne Suburb Firemen Hampered Melbourne
Fire destroyed the iron and steel foundry of Davies and Baird, of Brunswick, this morning, and gutted the adjoining premises, occupied by W. J. McLellan,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Panay Film Reporters with Cameras Big Risks Under Fire (Special Correspondent: Air Mail.) LONDON, January 7
One morning this week I went to see a film which was described "as the most important ever taken by any newsreel." It was the first showing in this country…
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