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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 19
Newcastle has its corps of women emergency auxiliary fire-fighters. It is the first corps of its kind in N.S.W. outside Sydney and the women's corps will form part of the scheme now being developed by the N.S.W. Fire Brigade and the National Emergency…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire brigades were called to three grass fries in the Newcastle district this afternoon. In each case the fires wore put out before there was any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Guarding against an emergency and assuring that ample men will be available when needed, a system of training reserve and auxiliary firemen has been instituted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty men living in the Quorrobolong district yesterday fought the fiercest bushfire experienced in the area in recent years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—Tremendous responsibility would fall upon individual members of the fire brigades in the event of an enemy attack on Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ISTANBUL, Sept. 2.—A fire in the old quarter of Istanbul has destroyed more than 100 houses and two mosques, and seriously damaged the Greek Orthodox…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Women's Fire Auxiliary, composed of members of the W.A.N.S., had its first instruction in fire fighting at Cook's Hill station last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When a Newcastle Ambulance car carrying a maternity case was coming down from Markwell, 10 miles out from Bulahdelah, last night, it came up behind…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Sept. 26.—The Luftwaffe last night set fire to a merchant ship in English waters, says a Berlin communique…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire completely destroyed a small shed in the backyard of a home in Darby-street, Newcastle to-day. Newcastle headquarters fire brigade was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The 66,000 volt power line from Newcastle to Sydney has been protected against bushfires. The bush has been cleared away well on either side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Widespread bush fires, whipped to life by a record 60-mile-an-hour westerly, and falls of snow at Stanthorpe, were startling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"The latest information I have is that your husband volunteered to remain behind at Khalive Hospital in Crete to help care for the numerous wounded we were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Three men were killed and three others injured in an explosion which occurred when they were fighting a fire at Brighton gas works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.) — Novelist, playwright and humorist, A. P. Herbert, M.P., savagely attacked the Oxford Group in a sharp debate in the House of Commons as to whether this group's evangelists should be exempted from war service as if they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flames sweep up the wooded valley near the sewerage treatment works beyond Merewether in the first bush first bush fire of the season…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The first bush fire of the season broke out in the wooded valley near the sewerage treatment works beyond Merewether yesterday afternoon. Fanned by a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Yesterday's hot weather brought the first crop of bushfires the-summer. There were five fires yesterday and last night. Only one of them required the attention of a fire brigade. AST night Newcastle Brigade at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four wood fires and an oil fire broke out simultaneously at the tramway depot, Hamilton, yesterday. At 2 p.m. they were blazing feet into the air. Three…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Oct. 12.—Planes of the Bomber Command last night attacked Emden and other objectives in North-west Germany and left large fires…
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