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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 42
The interior of The Hub Theatre, at Newtown, was severely damaged by fire in the early hours of this morning. Six brigades attended. At one stage it was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The election of officers of Cardiff Bushfire Relief Committee, which has as its object the raishing of £300 to help families left destitute by bushfires, was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Damage to Crown lands has been caused by a fire which has been raging in Goonoo forest, near Mendooran, for the past three weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sixty men fought a series of bush fires which threatened Bindi Station, near Bairnsdale, last night. Fanned by a strong wind, the flames burnt miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The telephone played a big part in saying homes and properties which were threatened in a further outbreak of bush fires at Broke. The position became so…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →About 12.30 p.m. yesterday, Wallsend Fire Brigade was called for all outbreak in dry grass along the side of the tramway and railway embankment at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A spectacular fire did nearly £4000 worth of damage at West Maitland today. Four fire brigades, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Almost the entire Paris fire brigade force was needed to subdue a fire which broke out in the historic Hotel des Invalides building, containing Napoleon's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →While fighting a fierce fire, which destroyed portion of Pepperel House in Castlereagh-street to-day, 15 firemen were overcome by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A coal fire followed an explosion in the State Electricity Commission's briquetting plant at Yallourn yesterday, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Between £300 and £400 in notes and cheques were destroyed when an old wooden dwelling, which housed a dozen Chinese market gardeners three miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Citizens' Bush Fire Committee met at Cardiff on Thursday Cr D. T. Johnston presided, the collectors reported that the house-to-house collections had raised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fireman fighting the blaze at West Maitland on Saturday, which gutted the bulk radio store of T. J. Wilks and a store of Kerosene…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire almost destroyed a storeroom at the broom factory of Kennard Bros., in Cowper-street, Glebe, yesterday. The firemen were hampered by the fumes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. Jane Graham, 77, widow, in rescuing whom Ralph Weiss, 17, gave his life in a fire on Friday, died in hospital yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bruno Reichert, a Czechoslovak refugee, who was formerly Mayor of Hirschfeld in Sudetenland, where his wife and children remain, was burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A bush fire at Hazelbrook yesterday swept up so quickly from the Glen area nearby that the occupants of three of a group of five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at nearly £3000 was caused by a spectacular fire at the rear of buildings in High-street, West Maitland, while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A party of 46 young men and women at a church picnic at Como to-day lost all their clothing and other belonging when a bush fire destroyed a marquee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sweeping through State forests in the Wyong and Morisset districts, fires which started on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day…
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