Baby Sets Clothes on Fire Moree
Ronald Brack, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Brack, dropped a lighted match on to his pyjamas yesterday. It set fire to his clothes. The mother extinguished…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 44
Hung Up Black Curtains Then Started Fire In Every Room LONDON, Oct. 25
When a police constable entered the house of Mis Edith Elizabeth Salmon. 69, of Meadows Lane, Handbridge, Chester, England, he found that fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Abermain Cottage Damaged by Fire
A weatherboard cottage occupied by Mr. Richard O'Brien, in Elizabeth-street. Abermain, was damaged by fire about 10.30 o'clock an Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sent Messages Under Fire LONDON, November 5
Marooned in a vehicle raked for two hours by the rifle fire of 50 rebels 500 yards way, an R.A.F. wireless operator remained at his post receiving and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Dutch Liner Copenhagen, November 26
Five persons were injured when a fire broke out in the new Holland-Amerika liner Sloterdyke while she was lying in the Odense shipyard. Others are still on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Care With Camp Fires
"Now that the camping and picnicking season is with us again. I think it is necessary that all motorists should be asked to take…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Child Burned Petrol Ignited by Fire
A two-year-old girl was badly burned and her mother and another woman received burns to the hands when a bottle containing petrol ignited near a kitchen…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Return Finnish Fire" Order to Soviet Troops Border Tension (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, November 28
"In connection with the provocative artillery fire upon our troops (rum Finland, the Soviet troops have been ordered to return the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Maitland, Cessnock, Kurri West Maitland Scope of N.E.S. Warden Tells Council Would Serve for Floods or Bushfires
The Chief Warden (Mr. H. W. Tegg) reported to West Maitland Council last night that the National Emergency Services had been inaugurated not merely as…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Small Fires At Waratah and Cook's Hill
Waratah Fire Brigade received a call to-day to the rubbish fire in the shute at the Waratah incinerator. The blaze was extinguished with one…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Destroys Wheat Narrabri
Mr. Stan Carberry, of "Cadarga," Culgoora, lost about 2000 bags of quality wheat in a fire which swept his property A patch of 10 acres which escaped the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Men Burned Trapped in Laundry by Fire SYDNEY
Ralph Henley, 53, of Woollahra, and John Cooper, 16, of Paddington, were burned when trapped by fire in a laundry at Edgecliff to-day. Healey is the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Shots on New Frontier Reds Fire on Hungarians London
Russian troops are reported to have fired on Hungarian sentries on the Ruthenian frontier (says a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Damages Fernery
Hot ashes set fire to a fernery at the home of Mr. Gordon Grant, of Louth Park-road, West Maitland, yesterday afternoon. West Maitland Fire Brigade was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Government Offers Reward Hangar Fire at Broken Hill SYDNEY
On September 6 fire destroyed four aeroplanes and a hangar at Broken Hill. It was notified in the "Government Gazette" to-day that £200 reward would be paid by…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bush Fire Menaced Aero Works Sydney
A the which destroyed about four acres of scrub outside Mascot aerodrome to-day menaced the workshop of the Royal Aero Club of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fire Danger To-day SYDNEY
THE ACTING State Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) issued the following bush fire warning to-night— Warm to hot weather, with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires Circle Sydney More Than 60 Reported SYDNEY
More than 60 bush fires were reported during the week-end. Property was threatened by some fires, but firemen beat back the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire In Lift
Newcastle East and Cook's Hill Fire Brigades were called to all outbreak of fire in an electric lift at Bears furniture store, Scott and Thorn streets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fireman Dies at Fire Sydney
While on duty at a fire at Dulwich Hill yesterday. Fire Officer H. Anzelark, 47 collapsed and died. He was a specialist in anti-gas work. In 1937 he was…
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