Fire Risks with Alloys Call for Caution
Interesting facts concerning the fire hazards of high percentage magnesium alloys and electron metal are contained in the latest issue of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 44
Bush Fires Near Sydney City Almost Surrounded Ammunition Dump Was in Danger Sydney
While the heat wave was at its height to-day, there was a fire belt almost around the city. Bush and scrub outbreaks were reported from districts…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire on Five Mile Front Disastrous Blaze in Country Coonabarabran
Two hundred men fought a disastrous fire near here yesterday for four hours and a half before they conquered it…
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Two small fires occurred in Newcastle yesterday. In the morning brigades from Newcastle nod Newcastle East went to Bear's furniture store in Scott-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire at Moree Six Shops, Two Homes Destroyed MOREE
Damage estimated between £5000 and £6000 was caused by a fire which broke out about midnight last night in Balo-street. Six business premises and two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires Rage in Gosford Area Orchards Burnt Out Motorists' Trying Ordeal Gosford
With a hurricane blowing tonight, a series of fires is sweeping the lowlands and mountainous country a few miles south of…
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QUELLING THE BLAZE. A fire broke out in rubbish surrounding the top of the Newcastle incinerator last night. A fireman is seen hosing the blazing rubbish…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Oil Fires in Rumania Sabotage Suspected BUCHAREST, December 5
The Rumanian Government is investigating a series of oil fires and train wrecks. Some political circles allege that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This Incinerator Fire Was Not in the Day's Work
A FIRE AT an incinerator is part of its everyday existence, but when 20 tons of household garbage caught alight in the hoppers at Greater Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldiers Assist Firemen in Grass Fire
A detachment of troops from Fort Scratchley turned out with bags and shovels to fight a small grass fire which broke out near Nobbys Signal…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire-resisting Petrol Tanks on Nazi Planes London
Some German planes, which the Allies have brought down, are fitted with fire-resisting petrol-tanks of a novel design, says the aeronautical correspondent of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Danger Over Near Gosford Volunteers Kept Flames From Homes GOSFORD
Orchardists and small property owners in thickly timbered country south of Gosford spent an anxious night with flames leaping as high as 100 feet from tree to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire on Carrington Wharf
About 20 feet of the planking on the Carrington Wharf caught alight last night about 6 o'clock. Two fire engines from Headquarters and one from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush Fires in Sydney Suburbs Sydney
Many acres of bushland was destroyed by fire in several suburbs to-day. Firemen quelled big bush fires at Mascot, Lane Cove, Chatswood, Guilford, Pymble,…
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Four panels of fencing at the rear of a shop in Bridge Street, Waratah, were burned when a small area of gross caught alight to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Factory Fire Loss of £15,000 SYDNEY
Fire destroyed the kalsomine factory of Wesco Proprietary Ltd. in Granville last night. Damage is estimated at £15,000. Fire brigades fought the fire without…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Ship's Hold Flooded Fire in Wool Cargo Brisbane
To check a new outbreak of fire on a wool ship here to-day, firemen had to flood one hold and submerge the wool…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Steamer at Brisbane Deep in Hold Among Wool BRISBANE, Monday Morning
Early this morning a fire broke out on an oversea steamer berthed at Hamilton Wharf. Fire brigades were quickly at the wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Home Menaced by Flames Saved by Fire Break Bush Burnt Out at Kotara
Mr. M. Hoskins's home, in thick bushland, near Grinsell-street, Kotara, was threatened by a bush fire, which destroyed about 10 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →17 Shops Wiped Out by Fire Big Blaze at Mt. Morgan Mt. Morgan
Seventeen shops were destroyed to-day when a fire wiped out the main business centre of the town of Mt…
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