Fire 20 Rounds a Minute
On the Legal firing order, members of an American coast artillery anti-aircraft regiment go into action in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 22
Fires Started in Four Sydney Hotels
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Metropolitan detectives are investigating fires which broke out in four city hotels within three hours of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Canadian Naval Shipyard
MOWTREAL. Wednesday (AAP).—A fire destroyed the large structure of the Midland boatworks. also two naval…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner Says— Hotel Is Fire Death Trap
The department should see that every hotel had proper means of escape, said the Kurri kurri Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death Trap, Says Coroner No Fire Escape at Hotel
It is a regular death trap," the Kurri Kurri Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) said yesterday, at an inquiry into a fire which gutted the second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Imperilled Ship in Port
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Disaster almost overtook a ship at a wharf in an Australian port yesterday, when a fire broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Bug Active Again Started Blaze With Acid
SYDNEY, Monday.—The fire bug, who started fires in four Sydney hotels last Wednesday, was at work again today. This afternoon a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Saboteurs Blamed for Berlin Fires
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP): Five large fires in the same area of Berlin in the past few days are suspected of being the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Skiers Got Their Fire
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Before accompanying a party of skiers through a snowstorm to the Mount Buller chalet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U-Boat Fires on Lifeboat
WASHINGTON, July 23.—The Navy Department has announced that three more Allied vessels—Norwegian. United States, and British—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Fire-bug" Did Not Start Hotel Fire
SYDNEY: Investigations by members of the CIB arson squad have satisfied them that the fire in the Carlton Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daring Rescues by Firemen Guests Trapped By Hotel Fire
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Firemen made daring rescues from a fire at the Hotel Carlton, in Castlerengh-street, City, early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TARZAN. Fire Machine
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Die in Sydney Factory Fire
SYDNEY.—That a wall of flame suddenly cut off retreat of the inmates to the fire escape during the recent fire in a five…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Defied Annihilating Fire for Eight Hours A.I.F. Attack on "Ruin Ridge"
Advanced Australian Battle Headquarters, July 29.— West Australian troops were the spearhead of the attack on the German positions in the northern sector of the Egyptian battlefront on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Fires Started At Saarbrucken
LONDON, Thurs. (AAP)—Heavy night air raids on Saarbrucken, coal mining and industrial centre on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brigades Attend Two Small Fires
Fire brigades were called to two small fires in Newcastle and Hamilton to-dny. Cook's Hill arid Newcastle East…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£2000 Damage at Nesca House Midnight Fire; Meal Cooked In Theatre
A fire, which started in the demonstrating theatre at Nesea House at midnight on Saturday, caused about £2000 worth of damage. Other parts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nesca House Fire
Officers of the Electric Supply Department yesterday checked over the damage done by the fire at Nesea House on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Salvaging Tank Under Fire
While hauling a damaged tank on to a British at the height to the third battle of Libya, shellfire was so intense that the men frequently had to dive for cover…
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