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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 44
An incendiarist is believed to have been responsible for a fire which destroyed the Macquarie Stores, resulting in a loss of £10,000, early to-day. The fire was the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Board of Fire Commissioners has approved the establishment of a fire alarm in Main-street, Neath Hill, to be in direct communication with Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Portion of the woodwork of the kitchen of a house in De Vitre-street, Lambton, occupied by Mr. M. Williams, was charred when a member…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fearing that the undetected "firebug" in the town may strike again in its absence, Narromine Fire Brigade has had to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It was reported to-night that the bush fire refugees' camp at Noojee, on the Latrobe River, has been flooded out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MEMBERS of Gosford Fire Brigade were at the station this morning in new uniforms, and were about to leave by motor-car for Katoomba to attend the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Narromine's seventh fire since last Sunday, all believed to be the work of an incendiary, occurred last night, when a small…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The only home in the Noojee district which survived the bush fires of five weeks ago is awash to-day in flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the half-yearly meeting of the Victorian Insurance Company to-day, the Chairman (Mr. L. S. Miller) stated that the company would lose more than…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Representations by Victoria South Australia and Western Australia for increases in the amounts of their approved loan programmes for the current financial…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A small area of grass was destroyed and 10 panels of fencing, were slightly damaged at the residence of Mr. R. Moffat, Capp-street. Telarah, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Accidental destruction by fire," was the verdict of the Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) when at Cessnock Courthouse to-day he…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After a cold, wet summer a heatwave is sweeping the Dominion with extensive scrub and bush-fires. The Nelson and Marlborough…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is so little left of any of the seven planes which were destroyed in last night's £40,000 fire at Anselt Airways…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday morning. In a spectacular blaze at Essendon Aerodrome early this morning aeroplanes worth £40,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An aeroplane burning fiercely in the centre of the Ansett Airways steel hangar in the £50,000 fire at Essendon aerodrome, Melbourne, yesterday. A tractor, backed into one corner in an effort to rescue other planes is shown on the left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Damage might have been caused to-night if a bush fire, which came down from Mount Mount to within 300 yards of Gosford’s main-street, had not been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The destruction by fire of a four-roomed weatherboard dwe[?]g in Kalingo-street Bellbird, owned and occupied by Ernest Albert Crossley, on February 3. was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The cause of the fire which destroyed seven aeroplanes in the hangar of Ansett Airways Ltd., at Essendon aerodrome, early this morning, is unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Volunteer fire brigades demonstration began to-day. The first track events resulted— Dennis motor engine 250-gallon collector…
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