Cessnock Fire
An old six-room weatherboard cottage in Mount View-rd., Cessnock, was destroyed by fire on…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
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Fire In Laundry
Newcastle and Hamilton fire stations sent engines to a small fire in the laundry of a cottage in Lambton…
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New Lambton brigade put out a grass and bush fire off Marsh-street, Kotara, last night with beaters and…
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Resolutions passed by a conference of councils at Maitland on July 30 were endorsed by Newcastle City Council last night…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Firemen at Lithgow were on duty for 18 hours fighting bushfires to-day…
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Fire brigades in the Newcastle area had a busy time this morning with scrub and grass fires and in four hours had been called to six fires at Charlestown, Adamstown, New…
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Bush and grass fires started in five places in the Newcastle district yesterday and last night. They were put out…
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Newcastle Fire Brigade quickly put out a small fire in a warehouse at the rear of Speedo Knitting Mills in…
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A fire caused slight damage to the contents of Swan, Murray and Hain's produce store shed in Elgin…
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SYDNEY.—A new fire hose box had been established in the Cardiff Heights bushfire area, the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A 30-yeard-old Postmaster-General's Department clerk was arrested and charged late…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—A Canberra Supreme Court jury awarded a grazier £4000 damages to-day for fire loss on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"In The Good Old Days" First Fire Station
These days, considering its size, Newcastle is not noted for the number and destructiveness of fires, but before it had a reticulated water system the place was known as "The City of…
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Allan Minter, 11, of Smart-street, Charlestown, suffered burns to his left leg and hands when a fire in which he was…
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Hamilton fire brigade put out a grass fire with a garden hose yesterday. The fire was in a vacant…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade put out a grass fire in Aberdare Rd., Aberdare, yesterday and another in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A man balanced on another man's shoulders last night to save a woman and her baby from…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire yesterday gutted a home at Darling Point valued at £10,000. It was owned by…
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GOSFORD: A racing bushfire was fought by more than 100 men, women and…
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With more warm weather forecast, bushfire authorities today warned of increasing fire danger throughout New South Wales. The Newcastle Area…
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