Freighter Fires on U-boat
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—A. British freighter is believed to have sunk an Axis submarine by gunfire off the Atlantic coast…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 22
Japanese Sweeping Down to Singapore Fires Started By Enemy Bombers
LONDON, Feb. 2.—Japanese troops in Malaya are pouring southwards towards Singapore, according to reports by Allied reconnaissance planes. The Japanese are being harassed in the Johore Bahru…
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LONDON, Feb. 3.—Black smoke floated over Singapore all day yesterday from fires started by bombs dropped by Japanese raiders on widely-separated points. Firemen isolated the blazes and so limited the damage…
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A four-roamed weatherboard cottage, owned and occupied by Ivy Maud Williams, Greta street, Aberdare, was destroyed with its contents early on…
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LONDON, Feb. 4.—A wave of fires and bombings has swept Norway. This is the outcome of Norwegian resentment at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Damages Valuable Machinery
SYDNEY, Friday.—Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused by a fire at Westinghouse (Rosebery) Pty. Ltd. this afternoon. Valuable…
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A large quantity of packed cereal foods and cardboard containers was damaged by a fire which broke out in the ground floor store-packing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fought Fires for 45 YEARS Mr. A. L. Jenkins Dead
Mr. Alfred L. Jenkins, former captain of Boolaroo Fire Brigade and President of the Newcastle and District Volunteer Fire Brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →R.A.N. Men Put Out Batavia Fire
BATAVIA, Feb. 8.—Australian naval men turned firemen when petrol fumes ignited and set a service station in Batavia on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Philadelphia Fire
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.—A gigantic fire, the greatest in the history of Philadelphia, destroyed a warehouse and 70 other buildings…
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BELLEVILLE (Illinois), Feb. 9.—A passenger in a commercial sight-seeing plane was critically wounded by bullets when army soldiers who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Household Groups to Fight Fires
A plan to form groups of people living close to one another into fire fighting units has been prepared by the Divisional Warden for F (Cook's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day's Air Raid Hint How to Deal with Fires
Question: In what order should you handle the situation when fires have been caused by an incendiary bomb?…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air Raid HINT—No. 36 Sand in Fire Fighting
If a stirrup pump is not available, incendiary bombs can be effectively handled by using sand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Teachers Taught Fire Fighting
About 150 teachers from primary and secondary schools in the Newcastle district attended a demonstration of fire fighting at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Normandie Fire. Charges of Muddle
NEW YORK, Wednesday (O.S.R.).— Charges of muddle in righting the fires on the liner Normandie are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Confusing Reports of Normandie Fire
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Statements emanating from the authorities investigating the disastrous fire in the former…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air Raid Hint No. 37. Get Fire Under Control
Fires caused by incendiary bombs must first be controlled in dealing with these air raid dangers…
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Fire ravages buildings on the outskirts of Singapore. The photograph was taken a few days before the Japanese landed on the Island—Department of Information photograph…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Demands For Probe Into Normandie Fire
WASHINGTON, Friday. (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.)—Revelations of negligence in providing proper safeguards, are…
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