Four-Year-Old Tries Fire Act
The showman's stunt of riding through a wall of fire, put on at a Wallsend carnival some weeks ago, was emulated by four-year-old…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 30
Stop Press Victorian Fires
MELBOURNE: By 1.30 p.m. ten fires were burning in various parts of the State. One 15 miles southeast of Albury, was reported from the…
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Cook's Hill brigade attended a small fire in a tent housing a sideshow, at Parnell Place Carnival, late yesterday afternoon. One side…
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New Lambton and Hamilton Brigades fought a large grass fire near Lambton bridge today. Each brigade used one hydrant in fighting the…
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KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.—All underground work in the Lake Star mine and in a large portion of the Great Boulder mine, has ceased…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Bush fires were reported to-night over 50 miles of the area near Cape Everard (Gippsland)…
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Brigades were called to six grass fires in Newcastle district yesterday. There was no damage. Adamstown brigade attended a…
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CHUNGKING, Jan. 10. A.A.P.—Immediate cessation of hostilities has been ordered by Central Government and…
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Beware of bushfires and take precautions. This picture shows a small outbreak in North Lambton yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A bush fire blazing on a 12-mile front is menacing the small township of Wolumla, on the South Coast. More than 50 fire-fighters were…
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Five grass fires were reported within the Newcastle Fire Brigade district last night. Brigades turned out to extinguish fires on vacant…
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SYDNEY: A desperate struggle to save the village of Wolumla, 14 miles from Bega, from destruction by bushfires, which encircle it, is being waged by 200 people. The entire adult population of 150 is fighting the flames…
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Two grass fires were reported at the week-end. New Lambton brigade attended an outbreak off Grinsell-road, Kotara, and Charlestown…
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Fire caused about £20,000 damage yesterday at the Torrenside mills at Thebarton (S.A.). The carding department,…
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LONDON, Sunday: "It is so cold this morning, that I do not feel like stirring from the fire," said Mrs. Ann Haberfield…
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NUREMBURG, Sunday: Goering and Goebbels are implicated in the burning of the Reichstag (Feb., 1933) in a letter written by one of Ernst Roehm's assistants. ROEHM, chief of staff of the Brown-…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Renewed bushfire warnings were issued to-night following reports of several outbreaks in suburban and country areas…
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Attention was given by Wallsend Brigade to a blaze among scrub and grass off Moore-street, Brimingham Gardens…
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SYDNEY: About 3000 acres of grass as been burned by a bushfire on Major Elswotthy's property near Bethungra. There is no immediate…
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Fanned by a freshening wind, bush and grass fires, which have been smouldering between Stockton and Nelson's Bay for over a…
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