Fires Extinguished by Sound
Mr. Charles Kellog, a Californian scientist, gave firemen a demonstration in extinguishing a gas flame 2ft. high 'by sound tonal vibration. Mr. Kellogg…
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Fires & bushfires, 1926
1,375 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 69
Melbourne Bush Fires. Shipping Inconvenienced
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Bush fires have started at various centres about Melbourne, and fire fighters are busy at Cockatoo and Sassafras…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—One of the worst bush fires now raging in the south is one in the forest country between Tumut and Mount Kosciusko, on the…
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A weatherboard cottage, situated at Middle Creek, owned and occupied by Mr. Gus Hosking, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday morning. Mr…
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Three times in succession the annual smoke concert of the Cessnock fire brigade has been interrupted by an alarm of fire. The alarm on Saturday week…
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Six persons had exciting escapes when a fire destroyed several bedrooms at the Cambrian Hotel. Maryborough, early yesterday morning. The boarders escaped in night…
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A fire almost entirely destroyed the stock of the United Furniture Factory, Camperdown. The flames swept through the building with remarkable rapdity. A large…
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Notwithstanding that many outbreaks of fire in the Tumut, Gundagai and Wagga districts have been got under control, flames are breaking out Continuously a[?] different…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.--The damage caused by fire to-day to the premises occupied by Christian Hyass, as a furniture showroom, in Parramatta…
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Five houses were destroyed by a bush fire which swept portion of Olinda in Dandenong ranges. Fire fighters succeeded in preventing the flames from sweeping right…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--So thick is the smoke cloud from coastal bush fires, that several steamers have been compelled to alter, their course…
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Melbourne, Tuesday.--Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused by a fire which started last night among stacks of waste spread over an acre of…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The township of Upper Ferntree Gulley was menaced by fire. Fortunately the flames were driven back by the fire…
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Sydney, Tuesday.--The Victorian State Minister for Forests, Mr. Richardson, and a member of the Forestry Commission, had an exciting…
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During an operation at Mansfield Hospital a nurse's skirt overturned a bottle of ether, and the fumes spread to a fire 14ft. distant. An explosion followed, and the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The serious bush fires at Belgrave and in the Upper Ferntree Gully have practically burnt themselves out. All danger is…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The State Minister for Forests (Mr. Richardson) and the members of the Forests Commission, had an exciting experience…
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ALBURY, Tuesday.--A bush fire swept between 5000 and 8000 acres of grass land at Gerogery yesterday, and severe damage was done to property…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Damage estimated at £40,000 was caused by a fire which started among slacks of waste spread over an acre of ground,…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A cigarette butt, carelessly thrown aside in the street at Abbotsford, about 5.30 yesterday afternoon, is believed to…
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