Fire Fighters Aboard Desperate Fight With Flames
LONDON, Thursday:--The "Chronicle's" reporter, who flew over the blazing hulk, says: "The tea is calm and favorable for the 90 mile tow to Le…
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Fires & bushfires, 1933
480 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 24
Mystery Deepens Body Found in Fire London
The boyd of the man found burned to death at Hampstead has been conclusively identified as Walter Spatchett's by means of a laundry mark…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Was Tired of Life So Became Fire Bug Astonishing Case
MELBOURNE, Friday: -- Astonishing evidence was given at Broadmeadows Court to-day when Robert Henry Harmer (36), a laborer, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scrub Fires
Heath and scrub fires continue to break out in the vicinity of Coolangatta and Bilinga and in some cases dwellings have been threa[?].. with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Razes Farmhouse Dunbible Blaze Mr. and Mrs. J. B. King's Loss
Sweeping ravenously through the dry timbers, fire destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. King at Dunbible early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early Morn Blaze at Kyogle Shop and Residence Destroyed MR. S. E. Mitchell's Premises
Shortly after daylight on Saturday a large wooden shop (with a residence in the rear portion) in the centre of the business block of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires State Forests Menaced Sydney
Disastrous bush fires spread over a frontage of eleven miles threatened to destroy the Baradine and Coomore State forests yesterday. Fire-fighters,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Conspiracy Feared French Shipping. Sequence of Fires on Luxury Liners
LONDON, Sunday:- The mysterious fire on the mammoth liner Fiance has alarmed shipping circles and accentuates the belief…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Fire Saddler's Shop and His Residence Bank Menaced
After a respite of about a year and a half from the series of destructive fires in Kyogle over a period of about five years, another disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Casino Fire Coroner's Verdict School of Arts Buildings Casino
"I find that the buildings in Walker and Barker streets owned and controlled by the Casino School of Arts Trustees…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Grass Destroyed Disastrous Fire Heavy Damage in Molong District
SYDNEY, Monday:- Thousands of acres of Wheat and grass land were destroyed, and homesteads threatened, to-day by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Farm Blaze Extensive Damage Done Wellington
More than 200 men fought a fire on Nebraska estate to-day, although the temperature was 100 degrees in the shade. Many bags of wheat and 240…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Casino Fire Inquiry
"I find that the buildings in Walker and Barker streets owned and controlled by the Casino School of Arts Trustees were destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under Control Bush Fires in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Wednesday:-- With a cool change, bushfires over the State were under control to-day. In various parts of the State outhouse's and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Wide Area Swept Extensive Damage Sydney
Fanned by westerly winds, bush fires are raging over a large area in western New South Wales, Three thousand acres of grazing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lismore Fires 12 Months Review
On 42 different occasions during 1932 the Lismore fire brigade was called out to extinguish fires in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Byrrill Creek Fire
A dense pall of smoke has been hanging over the Byrrill Creek district for several days as a result of fires in the hills, the visibility at times extending…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Alarm at Coraki
Prompt action at Coraki on Tuesday prevented a fire which might have swept the whole block of wooden buildings at the corner of Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Laverty's Barn and Contents Destroyed
A fire at 7 o'clock last evening destroyed a two-story barn containing two chaff cutters, half a ton of hay and an Austral Oil…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires Sweep Countryside Heavy Damage Hundreds of Outbreaks in N.s.w
SYDNEY, Wednesday:--A fierce wind and scorching heat, which sent the thermometer over 100, caused hundreds of destructive…
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