Empty House Set on Fire Was Used by Swagmen JUNEE
Police-sergeant Hardy told the Magistrate at an inquiry to-day into a fire in an unoccupied weatherboard cottage on May 3 that in his opinion it was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1939
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 44
Detonator Exploded in Fire
Charles Fairlie, of Shedden-street, Cessnock, received a minor injury to his left leg in a most unusual way while sitting at his fireside yesterday…
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THE CREW OF THE FRENCH fishing vessel, Ben Hur. which was abandoned in a sinking condition in the Atlantic. 185 miles nortn-east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, being brought to the rescue ship, Duchess of Bedford. The Ben Hur, set on fire to prevent her becoming a danger to navigation, is in the background…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cottages Damaged Fires at Argenton and Belmont Local Brigades Make Good Saves
A cottage was severely damaged by fire at Argenton yesterday afternoon, and another at Belmont on Saturday night. The fire at Argenton occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£20,000 FIRE Furniture Store Partly Gutted Homes Menaced at Camperdown Sydney
Several adjoining homes were threatened by a fire which partly gutted the furniture repository of Kilners Pty, Ltd. in Parramatta-road, Camperdown,…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade turned out to a false alarm yesterday afternoon. The call appeared to come from Light's corner. Workmen were attending to the cables…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Quelling Fire in Coal Stack at Zara Street Powerhouse
The "heating up" which developed some time ago in the coal stack at Zarn-street powerhouse has extended slightly in the post week and gear…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kurri No Permanent Officer Kurri Kurri Fire Station
The Board of Fire Commissioners has declined to appoint a permanent officer to take charge of the Kurri Kurri fire station. The reason given is that there…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cottages in Danger Sequel to Furniture Store Fire Occupants Ordered to Leave Sydney
Because two of the walls of Kilner's storage building, which was severely damaged by fire last night, are bulging dangerously, people living in five…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire in Coal Stack Scoop Ready at Zara-street
Officials at Zara-street power-house prepared a scoop and gear yesterday to enable them to turn over hundreds of tons of coal which have been affected by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Not Deliberately Caused Basement Fire Outbreak at Japanese Consul's Home Sydney
Police are "satisfied that a fire which broke out in the basement at the home of the Japanese Consul-General (Mr. Akiyama) last Monday was not caused…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Killed and Burned O'shea" Detective Says Moss Admitted Bones in Fire Evidence in Narromine Case DUBBO
Evidence that in a statement said to have been made by him to police, Albert Andrew Moss, 81, admitted that he had killed and burned Timothy O'Shea, 55,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London's £1,000,000 Fire
Some of the 200 firemen at work on the flames in big buildings in London on June 26. There were more than 40 fire fighting appliances at work…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cigarette Caused Great Fire At Marseilles LONDON
"The Times" correspondent at Marseilles says that the report of experts regarding the Marseilles fire on October 29 attributes it to a workman…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Greek Ship on Fire Jewish Passengers Landed JERUSALEM, July 6
A Greek vessels, which was carrying 400 Jews from Rome, caught fire near the Greek Mediterranean islands. A warship answered the vessel's S.O.S. and landed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Marseilles Fire Experts Blame Workman LONDON, July 7
Experts attribute the huge fire which occurred at Marseilles last year to a workman throwing a cigarette into tar-soaked boxes…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →London's £1,000,000 Fire II Duce's Wife... Koala For U.S. Air Hostess
OFFICE GIRLS gaze on the ruins of New Zealand-avenue, after London', worst fire in 42 years. Eight big buildings were willed and £1,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burned to Death at Hospital Woman's Clothes Caught Fire SYDNEY
[?] day after she had secured work as a kitchen-maid. May Jackson. 50. spinster was burned to death at. the war Memorial Hospital. Waverley…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Air Raid" South of England "Strafed" Test of Defences Blackout, Bombs and Fires (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, July 9
With the exception of Greater London, almost the whole of Southern England was blacked out between midnight and 4 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£25,000 Fire Inquiry Sydney
A coronial inquiry into the cause of the fire which was responsible for damage estimated at £25,000 at the furniture store of Kilner's Ltd., Camperdown, last…
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