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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
650 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 33
Raging through dense scrub behind Charlestown and off the Pacific Highway, about a mile and a half beyond Adamstown, bushfires laid waste the country and roared around dwellings as fire brigades, aided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BUSH NEAR CHARLESTOWN blazed and fiared last night as advancing fires consumed it. Top and lower pictures show…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A bush-fire, which started near Ayrfield No. 2 Colliery yesterday afternoon set alight a number of pit-top buildings at the colliery last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Traffic was held up for half an hour on the Pacific Highway near Marks Point to-day while Belmont Brigade fought a fierce fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the conclusion of an inquiry at Newcastle Courthouse to-day into the circumstances surrounding the outbreak of fire in the Commonwealth Oil Refineries' 300,000-gallon power kerosene tank on December 16, the Coroner (Mr. A. G…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Paris radio announced to-night that a fire at the Max Huete Steel Works, in Bavaria, destroyed rolling mills and furnaces Work will be held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE TENACITY of about 20 school-boys who began bush fire fighting as a game yesterday morning and finished early last night blackened, exhausted, and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The bushfire which swept through the gully below the Convalescent Home at New Lambton yesterday burst out with renewed vigour last night. It was feared patients might have to be evacuated. A change of wind enabled firemen to get…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A well-attended meeting of residents of Beresfield last night decided to form a volunteer bushfire brigade. Cr. T. McCarthy reported this to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush fires, the formation of fire squads and other details connected with emergencies which might arise in the country, were discussed at length by a conference…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stockton Borehole colliery, near Teralba, was threatened for nearly four hours yesterday by the advance of a mile-wide bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Whipped up by the strong westerly which began shortly after noon, bushfires to-day raged with renewed vigor in many parts of the district. After their gruelling three-day fight with more…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire broke out on a vacant allotment near the Cessnock railway station yesterday. The fire brigade controlled it before damage was done to adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Paris Radio announced that a fire, which burnt for 36 hours, at the Max Huete Steel Works, in Bavaria, destroyed rolling mills and furnaces. Work will be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →When timber in the month of the main shaft at Ayrfield No. 2 colliery, where a fire was extinguished on Tuesday, again caught fire early yesterday morning. Kurri…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The occurrence was purely accidental and all departmental requirements had been observed, said an export of the Department of Mines and Explosives before…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Father Coughlin, says the New York "World-Telegram." will be the centre of the biggest battle in the revised Dies Committee, which has hitherto…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Detectives to-day were engaged in trying to discover the cause of several serious bushfires which have occurred this week…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Right: FIRE FIGHTER. A young volunteer attacks a bush fire near Newcastle with a branch as a beater. Fires still…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →John Tothurst, aged six, of East-street, Warner's Boy, fell while playing near a smouldering bush fire at Warner's Boy to-day. Hew was treated…
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