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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 42
Boarders and staff asleep in Tattersall's Hotel, Chinchilla, which is about 150 miles from Brisbane, had narrow escapes early to-day, when a fire swept through…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Huge logs, weighing 200 tons, were destroyed by fire last night at Plumpton, near Rooty Hill. Residents who fought the blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More than 100 patients had narrow escapes when a fire gutted three wards, the kitchen, store-room, and pantry, and caused…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About 7 o'clock last night Wallsend Fire Brigade gave attention to a fire among scrub and grass on property off Lake-road, Wallsend. A chemical…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →George Unwin. a relief worker, escaped from a blazing house at Anstey-street, Cessnock, at midnight last night. in only his trousers and shirt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The prompt arrival of the fire brigade on Thursday night resulted in the saving of part of a five-roomed weatherboard cottage which caught fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The strange story of a well-known firefighter starting fires and then helping to extinguish them was told to-day when Henry Frank Grumont, 21, pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cessnock fire brigade was called out late yesterday afternoon to grass fire on vacant allotment near North-avenue, Cessnock. The fire was speedily extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Carl Tochaum, of Killara, was burned on the left hand when a fire broke out in a motor launch owned by Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., at a wharf at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Damage estimated at more than £500 was done by a fire which broke out in a block of weatherboard shops in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While 50 guests at Tattersall's Hotel, Glen Innes, were sleeping last night, firemen were fighting a blaze in an adjoining building…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire bombs are perhaps, more dangerous than explosive and gas bombs, in the opinion of Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Damage estimated at £500 was done when these weatherboard shops at Broadmeadow caught fire yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A bootmaker's shop occupied by Norman Kay, and a adjoining hairdressing saloon, occupied by Ernest Cowley, in a weatherboard building in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While an auction sale was being held in premises in Hunter-street Newcastle, to-day, part of the stock burst into flames. They…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Afire that broke out during an auction sale in the former Newmarket Hotel building in Hunter-street, Newcastle, caused £400 damage to stock before it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Adrian Jones, 30, gunman and ex-convict, who was fatally wounded yesterday by a detective at whom he had fired a shot, was one of the most desperate criminals encountered in recent years in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With a strong wind fanning the blaze. a fire gutted the general store of Hugh Linton at Neath at 5 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Appointed to tackle one of the biggest fire brigade reshuffles ever carted out in Britain. Senior Superintendent G. J. Wright. London's new…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire at the Queensland Forest Service showroom and workshop in George-street early to-day destroyed samples of every known timber in the State, which had…
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