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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 29
SYDNEY: Fearing fresh outbreaks, firefighters are patrolling 70,000 acres of smouldering grassland, destroyed yesterday in a fierce buhfire which raged on a 25-mile front near Tibooburra in the north-west. Aided by two planes, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortland Progress Association has received authority from the Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. Quinlan) to launch an appeal to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two tents in May-street, Cardiff, containing sufficient furniture for a house of five rooms, together with a small building housing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DARWIN, Monday.—The office of the "Centralian Advocate," the weekly Alice Springs newspaper which has advocated a fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Fire destroyed wool worth about £200,000 in a shed at Brooklyn to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: N.S.W. has experienced a record number of bushfires this summer and since the week-end firefighters have quelled about 40 outbreaks throughout the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GRAFTON, Tuesday.—A fire destroyed a cottage and contents at Crossmaglen, near Coff's Harbour, this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plans to assist the family of Mr. G. F. Jackson, whose tent, furniture and clothing were destroyed by fire on Monday night, will be put…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting will be held at the Cardiff Church of England Parish Hall tonight at 7.30 to assist Mr. and Mrs. G…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Lithgow aldermen think the Board of Fire Commissioners is "getting too cheeky" because it has refused to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Ernesto Both, a 74-year-old retired printer, collapsed when the rear portion of his home in Esham-st.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two youths, who had admitted robbing and setting fire to a house in King-st., Shortland, on Dec. 16, had given the fire alarm, Sgt. C. L. Gardner, of Wallsend police, said at Newcastle Court today. He was giving evidence at an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two youths who admitted having set fire to a house on Boxing Night in King-street, Shortland, said they had also given the alarm,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Jan. 19. A.A.P.-Reuter.—One of the worst fires in the city business area for many years caused thousands of pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clang, clang!! . . . the sound of the fire alarm and nine light-hearted high school boys make a dash for what is to be the fulfilment of every boy's Certainly there is not the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEW YORK, Fri. (AAP): Thirty-two persons perished in fires today on the North American…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On the end of this apparatus is 200lb of nitroglycerin. It was used to blow out the oil fire seen burning in Oklahoma, United states. Ten minutes later the oil well burst into flames again…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—Thousands of pounds' worth of damage was caused when a fire almost gutted a sailmakers' premises in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AUCKLAND, Jan. 20. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Damage estimated at £50,000 was caused by last night's fire in Nagel House, a five-story…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Jan. 20. A.A.P.—Three more soldiers died yesterday in Colorado Springs (Colorado), bringing to five the number killed…
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