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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 28
BROADMEADOW FIRE.—Early this morning a fire did extensive damage to the furniture factory of C. Dickinson and Son, of Broadmeadow. The top picture shows the burned-out machine-room, and below what remained of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire which began shortly before midnight last night and was still burning at 2 a.m. razed most of the furniture factory of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BORDEAUX, Monday (A.A.P.): Official figures give the death roll in France's disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Aug. 21. A.A.P.—Eighty people are believed to have died in forest fires reaching to within six miles of Bordeaux. Twenty-two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ORANGE, Sunday.—Damage estimated at between £8000 and £10,000 was caused by a fire at the Orange Producers' Rural…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LITHGOW, Monday.— Fanned by a strong westerly wind, which at times reached gale force, a bush fire, which broke out at the rear of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday Cardiff fire brigade attended a grass fire off Main-road, Cockle Creek. The fire was put out by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BORDEAUX, August 22. A.A.P.—A death roll of more than 230 is feared in the flame-ravaged Gironde Forest south of Bordeaux as hundreds of Red Cross and volunteer rescue workers spent to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): Fierce forest fires are racing in seven American Stares and two Canadian provinces. Worst of the American fires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Hundreds of employees jammed narrow stairs as they fled for safely when fire gutted the top floor of the Albert…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Immediate lightening of the law to ensure that employees in all buildings in the State are given reasonable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BUNDANOON: Although in imminent danger of being trapped himself, a man twice dashed through fierce flames to rescue three young children from a block of holiday flats which were blazing from end to end…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.): Fires, which have destroyed 35,000 acres of America's richest timberland, are now burning in eight States. Fires also are raging in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BORDEAUX, Wed. (A.A.P.): M. Louis Giraudeau, Mayor of Saucats, near Bordeaux, who died trying to save people…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PARIS, August 23.—Twenty-eight soldiers were found dead in a desert of ashes left by the forest fires near Bordeaux. They lay in a circle they had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. W. Brook told Newcastle Smoke Abatement Advisory Panel last night that the dense pall of smoke which he had observed over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, August 24. A.A.P. —Lloyds has received a message from Aden, stating that a fire was discovered last night in the No. 3…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PARIS. August 25. A.A.P.—Roads leading to Gestas, the Gironde village in the heart of the burned-out forest land in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PERTH, Monday.—With part of its coal cargo smouldering and two of its holds flooded, the freighter Avismoat reached…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—Thirty-five firemen were injured when fire raged for six hours through a…
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