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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 30
SYDNEY: Pyjama-clad families armed with garden hoses and buckets assisted firemen for two hours early today to prevent flames from W. F. Hughes's blazing wool carbonising store from spreading to their homes in Erich Street, Botany…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BIG FACTORY FIRE.—Smoke rising from the gutted factory of F. W. Hughes's wool carbonising plant in Bay Street, Botany, destroyed by fire yesterday. Sixty firemen from eight stations fought the fire which threatened nearby houses for three hours. Damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire which caused £75,000 damage at a wool store at Botany early this morning endangered 50 homes. In a fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The State1 Industrial Commission to-day summoned representatives of the Fire Brigades Officers' Association and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A meeting of the Fire Brigade Officers' Association to-night reaffirmed its decision not to work more than 56 hours a week…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More than 300 people yesterday attended an auction sale of groceries and other goods salvaged from the fire which gutted the warehouse of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Officers of Toronto Fire Brigade say there is a danger of bush fires throughout the fire brigade district. They suggest that property owners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Firemen are seen attacking a bush and grass fire yesterday in a gully above Nesca Dam…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GRAFTON, Sunday.—Mrs. A. A. Reedman, who was trapped on the first floor balcony of a burning combined shop and residence in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cook's Hill and Hamilton brigades were called to a fire in a bakehouse at Hotcakes, Ltd., West End, yesterday afternoon. Some sacks near an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Prompt action by men loading sodium chlorate at Rose Bay this morning averted a major explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Monday: More than 100 firemen were injured in a fire which destroyed 1000 feet of a Manhattan pier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The Texas Forestry Service has appealed to the Army to rush 500 troops and all equipment possible to help fight fires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday—Members of the Fire Brigade Officers' Association decided, at a mass meeting to-night, to go…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Property owners may mobilise staff members trained in A.R.P. work to safeguard life and property in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Sept. 30. A.A.P.—One of the most destructive wharf fires in New York's history was brought under control last night after 125…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Firemen to-day prevented a serious blaze in the St. Peter's factory of Felt and Textiles Ltd. when a fire began in 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY: A last minute attempt to avert a general de-up of fire services throughout N.S.W. will be made at a conference late this afternoon called by the Minister for Labor and National Services (Mr. Hamilton Knight)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire officers will start working a 56-hour roster from 6 p.m. to-morrow unless their dispute is settled quickly. A further mass meeting of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At 6 p.m. yesterday fire brigade officers throughout the State began working a 56-hour week instead of the 84-hours previously worked. A conference yesterday failed to reach a decision…
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