Pet Rat Sets Fire to House San Francisco, AUGUSt 25
A pet rat beloning to H J. Holleman of Alamreda. near Son Francisco. carried a sulphur match to its nest the other day. guawed the end…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
650 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 33
Fires and Gale Near Brisbane Two Houses in Danger
BRISBANE, Sunday.—Bush and grass fires round Brisbane to-day threatened property in several areas, but little damage was done…
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HONGKONG. Sept. 28. A.A.P.—A Royal Air Force plane was fired on by Japanese anti-aircraft guns yesterday while it was flying inside British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl Drags Father to Safety Car Crashes Through Bridge Into Fire
BUNDABERG, Sunday.—When a car crashed through a bridge weakened by a bush fire, Eileen Hanlon, 17-year-old daughter of James, Hanlon, rural district…
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Bushfires which caused heavy damage during the week-end were still raging to-day in the dry coastal sections of Queensland from Gympie to…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Much damage was caused by bush and grass fires which raged yesterday and to-day in the Bundaberg district and along the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Braved Explosion To Quell Fire LONDON, August 26
Mr. Herbert McLelland, 50. charge band, and Mr. John McCabe assistant foreman tried to isolate a fire which broke out at an ordance factory in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Berlin's Night of Terror Great Fires Blazed After Long Raid Bombers Struck Hard and Often London
Great fires illuminated the inner suburbs of Berlin and parts of the city proper last night when R. A. F. bombers hammered for four hours and a half at war factories, power plants and railway stations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Elephants Stampede in Blaze Melbourne
Panic stricken elephants bellowing with fear stampeded into Sydney-road, Brunswick, during a fire which did £10,000…
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LONDON, Oct. 2. A.A.P.—The Dublin trawler Kosmos (231 tons) reported on arrival as her home port that she was twice machine-gunned from the air off…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fire occurred red in the ventilation system attacked to cooking range in the kitchen of the Hotel Australia to-night. The damage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hire and Fire Issue in Southern Mines Wollongong
All mines in the southern districts and the coke works were again idle today, pending the conference in Sydney to-morrow over the dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Elephants Bolt in Busy Street Alarmed by Nearby Fire
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—During a fire in the Rex wire weaving works at Brunswick to-day, elephants attached to Sole Brothers' Circus became…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Baby Dies From Burns Stroller Blaze Mystery
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A four month-old baby bay war fatally burned when his stroller pram caught fire in the backyard of him home at Alexandria to-day. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires Burn Still in Berlin London
Neutral correspondents report that fires are still burning in Berlin to-day after last night's raid hy British squadrons. It was the heaviest attack on the German capital since the war began. For four hours, relays of British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires in Gippsland
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Sever bush fires are raging in East Gippsland, in the Onico, Orhost, Bruthen, and Barinsdale districts. Telegraph lines are down…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TARZAN— The Fire God
Janette and Dr. Wong began their journey—apparently their last—through the corridor. of Ahtra's palace. Presently they were joined by a chapter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lit Fires to Guide Nazi Bombers LONDON
"He is a victim of Goebbels" pleaded counsel for Herbert Victor Munt, 16, errand boy, at Munt's trial at the Old Bailey on charges of lighting fires to guide German bombers. COUNSEL said that Munt's parents had forbidden him to listen to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London's Bomb-scars Likened to Great Fire of 1666 LONDON
Probably nothing since the Great Fire of 1666 has so changed the face of London in such a short time as the last six weeks of bombing. It is an altered city that Londoners see on their devious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Volunteers Check Fire at Wauchope
GRAFTON, Thursday.—Volunteer workers saved portion of Cameron-street, Wauchope, this afternoon, when a fire broke out in a large vacant store known as…
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