Fire at Flats
Called to an outbreak of fire at Hampton Court Flats, West Maitland Fire Brigade found the roof timbering about No. 12 flat…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 22
Big U.s. Wool Store Destroyed by Fire
BOSTON. Friday (A.A.P.): Flames swept the six-story warehouse of the National Wool Marketing Corporation Building…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—James Butler Hodgson, 67, farmer, of Hedland, South Gippsland, was burned to death, many homes were…
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PHILADELPHIA, Mon. (AAP): Federal officials to-day began a rigorous investigation of a series of fires on the Delaware River…
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PHILADELPHIA, March 10.—Federal officials have begun a rigorous investigation of a series of fires on the Delaware River waterfront…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—An Italian cruiser, a merchant ship and a destroyer were set on fire by the RAF on…
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Sand dumped by the council throughout the district, to be used for extinguishing incendiary bombs if they fell, had been used by some…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Two forward holds of an oversea freighter had to be flooded to-night after a fire had burnt for two hours in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Raid Hint Phosphorous Fire Bombs
THE phosphorous incendiary bomb used by the Japanese is not very dangerous to handle if reasonable care mite bomb. Unlike the magnesium…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reducing Fire Risk Old Records Being Cleared Out by Newcastle Firms
Some business houses in Newcastle arc clearing out ancient filing systems and ledgers and other out-of-date inflammable material to reduce the risk of big fires being started on their premises by incendiary bombs…
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GOSFORD, Thursday.—Homes in Wameral and Terrigal were threatened late to-day by a bush fire which ravaged dry bushland in the area…
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A four-roomed weatherboard cottage at the corner or Neath and Greta Streets, Pelaw Main, and a weatherboard "batch" were…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire on the first floor of McIlraith's grocery store in King-street, Newtown, early to-night, destroyed a small quantity…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP): Intermittent artillery exchanges broke the lull in the Libyan campaign yesterday…
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CAPETOWN, Sunday (AAP).—Seven men of the South African Air Force, three men of the RAF and two civilians were killed when…
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SYDNEY: Chemical science is playing an important part in safeguarding RAAF crews from fire, says an RAAF bulletin issued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIRE! When A Submarine Torpedo Hits Home War Reporter Spends Day Beneath the Sea
To look at the captain, you would never think he had got 140,000 tons of enemy shipping to his credit and probably a good deal more. He is about 30, tall, with a keen, studious face with a rather untidy beard, which gives him a definitely Biblical appearance…
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SYDNEY.—Fire brigade experts are teaching people in country towns as well as Sydney how to deal with incendiary bombs…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).— Thousands of Londoners had been without fires for warmth during long periods of the recent winter…
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LONDON. Sunday (Our Special Representative): German military police in Athens fired on crowds and made many arrests…
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