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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
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Racing onward on a 20-miles front a bushfire, which has already razed 70,000 acres of good grazing country, threatens to get completely out of hand and to sweep on to Cobar, 100 miles away…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass and bush fires threatened homes and property about Newcastle yesterday. No damage was done. Charlestown Fire Brigade saved two…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Numerous bushfires were reported in the Blue Mountains district this afternoon and to-night. Several homes were threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Small grass fires occurred at Charlestown, Boolaroo and New Lambton today. The first outbreak was off the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A grass fire on a vacant area at North-avenue, avenue, Cessnock, was extinguished yesterday afternoon by Cessnock Brigade. No damage was done to property…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Morpeth Fire Brigade was called out to a large gross fire off Tank-street yesterday morning. The flames spread quickly in the long dried grass. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Firemen from West Maitland and Morpeth Fire Brigades, under First-class Fireman T. Mannall, had an all-night job last night…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Latest R.A.F. hero is a boy from Babamin, Western Australia, a wireless operator and gunner of a reconnaissance plane. He continued to fight and send out radio…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Aided by three points of rain, which reduced the fury of the flames, the dozens of men and women who, for days, have fought a bushfire have gained control…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A four-roomed cottage, with its contents, was destroyed by fire at Toronto late on Saturday afternoon. When Toronto Fire Brigade arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boys from adjacent houses worked with firemen at Cessnock to-day in extinguishing a grass fire which swept across a vacant area bounded by Guest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A small fire in a woodshed at the rear of a house in National Park-road, Hamilton, was extinguished by a garden hose this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire at the rear of the Trades Hall Is again active, this time at a spot nearer the building line. Since yesterday the fire has made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Though an extensive area of grass land was swept, no damage to property was done by a fire which occurred on vacant land bounded by Guest, Spencer and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A pencil of flame leaped under the balcony. Seventeen-year-old Woodrow Cook. usher in the theatre, at Florence. U.S.A., noticed it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A bushfire brigade has been formed at Muswellbrook. At the Muswellbrook Shire Council meeting the president (Mr. James White) pointed out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A bush and grass fire at Birmingham Gardeus, Wallsend, yesterday afternoon, spread quickly. When it reached the property of Mr. A. Davies, of Rae-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →There were two minor fires in the suburbs yesterday afternoon. The Adamstown Fire Station received a call to a grass fire off Gosford-street, Myer Park…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Occupants of houses in Bale Street, Birmingham Gardens, which were menaced by a grass fire this afternoon, assisted Wallsend Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Muswellbrook Shire Council will form a bush fire fighting organisation, to be known as the Muswellbrook Bush Fire Brigade. The President (Cr. J. White)…
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