Fire Sirens Only for Air Raids
IN FUTURE, the Fire Brigade will use its sirens only in cast of an air-raid, Inspector Currer, of Fire Brigade Headquarters, Cook's Hill, said yesterday that…
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Fires & bushfires, 1941
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 19
Japanese Siege Guns' Point Blank Fire at Hongkong's City
HONGKONG, Monday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.)—Victoria, Hongkong's beautiful capital at the foot of The Peak, is disintegrating under point-blank fire from Japanese siege guns in the Kowloon mountains, five…
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SYDNEY: Seven A.R.P. fire spotters reported a fire which broke out in the top floor of a building in Clarence- street, Sydney, early to-day…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A new set of instructions on how to deal with incendiary bombs was issued to-night by the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. Heffron). These…
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LONDON, November 13 (Air Mail) Fourteen surviors of the burned British freg[?]hter Arawak, including a plucky 11-year-old girl who finished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cost of Newcastle Fire District
The estimated cost of maintaining the Greater Newcastle fire district for 1942 is £29,728. Half of this amount is contributed by fire insurance companies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Jaws of Nazi Guns If bombs fall here, folk can get inspiration from the plain folk of the invasion ports—Britain's Hell-Fire Corner—who live dangerously
Unafraid, and determined to see this war through to victory, the citizens of Britain's front-line towns on the "invasion coast" are prepared for an y emergency. From Broadstairs round to Dymchurch the hardened folk of "Hell-Fire Corner," taking heed of Churchill's warning, are ready to deal with Hitler's grey-clad hordes should invasion come…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Alarm Was Not Put on for Minister
SYDNEY.—A genuine alarm interrupted an inspection of Fire Brigade headquarters by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) yesterday…
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The provision of fire-fighting equipment and squads in buildings where 30 people or more assemble, is imperative under regulations recently published…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The fire brigade has taken every precaution in case of an air raid. The President of the New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners…
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Managers in charge of premises in which persons are employed are required immediately to furnish particulars of the fire-fighting squad personnel to N.E.S. headquarters at the' City Hall. The Secretary of the Premises Wardens' organisation in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Bellbird Mine Store Gutted, But No Stoppage
The building housing stores at Bellbird colliery was gutted by fire late on Saturday afternoon. Cessnock and Bellbird brigades were…
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SYDNEY. Monday.—The danger of bush fires was greater than ever before and extended over the whole State, said the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) today. In…
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LONDON, November 18 (Air Mail): Relations between Hungary and Rumania are becoming "increasingly strained," says a recent Geneva…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Women in Fire Station
The Women's Fire Auxiliary of the W.A.N.S. has taken over watch-room duties at Cook's Hill Fire Brigade headquarters. A member of the auxiliary takes a call, Supervised by a brigade officer…
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Regulations to compel all men—and possibly also all women—to undertake fire-watching in their immediate neighborhood, are advocated by Mr. J. H. Broome, an A.R.P. expert, v cently arrived from England. Mr. Broome is general manager of R.O. Whitford (1939) Pty., Ltd., Redfern. He has had…
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LONDON, November 24 (Air Mail) —To fight the Nazis' rain of incendiaries on Britain one thousand miles of fire-hose have been turned out since…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grass Fire Did Not Stop Arahura
SYDNEY: A crass fire on the old steeplechase course caused the Wilton Park Handicap to be started without a barrier at Randwick this afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Current Topics Bushfire Warning
A GENERAL bush fire warning in New South Wales was issued yesterday by the Weather Bureau. The greatest danger is in the north-eastern and…
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Houses and a small school were endangered by a bushfire which swept through country between Kitchener and Abernethy this afternoon…
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