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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 44
More than £3000 damage was done when three buildings, containing a billiard-room, butcher's shop and iceworks, and a mercety store, were destroyed by fire at Tulligibeal…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →When a fire broke out in a Naval Base shed containing lime, it was found that no water was available. Firemen and police tore the shed to pieces with their…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →"It was one of the most disastrous explosions and fires, from the point of view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many men whom it was feared had perished in the bush fires are safe, but six are still missing. In several areas the danger has not passed, fresh outbreaks having sat firefighters a difficult task…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Six men were injured, one fatally, by an explosion which severely damaged the storage section of the Sanitarium Health Food Company's factory at Cooranbong about 10 o'clock last night…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A swirl of foam, a colorful costume, and a lone rock bather, yesterday—while the City sweltered and dreamt of scenes like this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trapped with her two younger sisters—Vera, aged 4½, and Dorothy, 18 month—between two devastating fires, in 1926. Florrie Hodges, aged 15, of Powelltown, Victoria, sought refuge on the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shortly after he had arrived at Warwick Farm racecourse today, the A.J.C. starter, Mr. J. Gaxieu, received an urgent message to return to his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Abandoning their cars when an attempt to reach safety through a fire-edged road had failed, a party of seven tried to run the gauntlet on foot in the Victorian forest fires. They went only 60 yards before they succumbed to the terrific heat. The body of one of the victims was found at the spot indicated. Timber-workers and their families saved from Padgett's mill in the Black Range, they sal before their wrecked homes awa[?]-roasted when bush-fires destroyed the settlement and the mill. With their baggage tear Buxton. Victoria. They were almost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland Fire Brigade turned out yesterday afternoon to a grass fire at Farley. With the assistance of several residents, the fire which destroyed a large…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Listening in at his amateur radio station VK2CI at Merewether last night. Mr. G. Kempton found that difficulty was being experienced in the relaying…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When a fire yesterday destroyed the butcher's shop and residence of Mr. E. Harvey at Yamble. Mr. Harvey's parents, aged 86 and 84 years, shifted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fanned by a strong westerly, flames which have burned out a large area of scrub country from Barnsley and Young…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The heat spell continued in Adelaide to-day when the thermometer, following yesterday's all-time record of 117.7 degrees in the shade, reached 114 degrees…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The cutting of fire hoses while firemen were extinguishing bonfires in Surry Hills streets on New Year's Eve had a sequel in the Central Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →About £300 damage was done by a fire which broke out in a sawmill owned by T. Davies, in Teralba-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Women and children were rushed to safety across, the Williams River when the bushfires swept down on the town. The last message received by the police at Newcastle from the postmaster before the town…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Four children were burned to death when a fire swept across a property at Barongarook, nine miles from Colac. One of the eight victims was an elderly man who…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The fate of 100 timber workers who, with their wives and children, are sheltering near the Ada mill in the Erica (Gippsland) area is still unknown. In addition, there is no word of 25 men at Brown's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Minister for the Interior (Mr. John McEwen) announced to-night that he proposed to appoint a committee to study the experience of the week-end with a…
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