New Fire Station for Young
A new fire station to cost £1876 is shortly to be built at Young by the Board. of Fire Commissioners to replace the small and unattractive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires & bushfires, 1937
520 stories in Riverina's papers · page 14 of 26
Barellan Fire Serious Outbreak Averted
What for a time looked like developing into a serious fire was narrowly averted at Barellan on Tuesday last, due to the efforts of a band of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Sea Praise for Officers and Crew "Incredible Courage"
A Cootamundra "old boy," Mr. Victor A. Florance, barrister and solicitor at Wau, New Guinea, who was a passenger on the Macdhui when she…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thrilling Rescue Dash Through Flames Two Children Saved Blaze at Henty
Dashing, through, flames and almost suffocated by dense volumes of smoke, two residents of Henty, Messrs. George Knobel in and A. K. Foster. figured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire on Ship Barrister Praises Officers and Crew Courage Saves Macdhui
Mr. Victor A. Florence, barrister and solicitor at Wau, New Guinea, and formerly of Cootamundra, who was a passenger on the Macdhui when she…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Albury
When his home at Doctor's Point Albury, was destroyed by fire late on Monday night, David Nichol, unemployed, who has been in ill health for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mother and Daughter Narrow Escape From Fire SYDNEY
Mrs. Hilda Ledger and her young daughter, of High street, Carlton, awoke early this morning to find their house in flames. They beat a hasty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spanish War Incendiary Bombs Dropped From Nationalist 'Planes Wheatfields Set oh Fire MADRID
In a desperate effort to withstan the Spanish Government offensive westward of Madrid, the Nationalists are dropping incendiary bombs from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Fire Reconstruction Adelaide
In an effort to solve the mystery of the fire in which Martha Matilda Herraman, aged 54 years, was burned to death on May 27, the police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cloudburst in England Floods and Fires Bomber Crashes in Flames LONDON
Some violent thunderstorms occurred in England to-day. Weymouth had a cloudburst which in a few minutes flooded many shops and houses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Man's Death Fatal Fall Into Fire Sydney
Thought to have overbalanced and fallen into the fire, a 95-year-old pensioner, Walter James Crampton. was burnt to death at his home at Botany…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Henty Coroner Holds Inquiry
An inquiry was conducted by Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., at the Henty Police Court into the fire which destroyed a house in Sladen-street on July 8,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Help a Fire
If the fire is dull, slightly damp, one or two sheets of newspaper, tear into several pieces, roll up tightly, and insert among the coals. They…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£1000 Lost As Result of Fire
When M. C. F. Day. of Quamby, stepped out of his front door at 6.30 a.m. last Wednesday, he found that his packing shed, apple grader, prune…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rescued From Fire Child's Narrow Escape
THE six year old daughter of Mr. Bill Cherry of Kurralong Avenue, Leeton, had a narrow escape from being burned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Troops Fire on Japanese Ship Tokio
A Navy Ministry communique says that Chinese troops fired on a Japanese destroyer lying off Tak[?]. The destroyer returned the fire, after which the naval…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Night of Horror Follows Japanese Bombardment! Chinese Quarters Swept by Fire Tientsin
Last night was one of horror, following the Japanese bombardment, and large areas in the congested Chinese quarter are still ablaze, while during the night flames luridly lit the sky…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Child Saved From Fire
The six-year-old daughter of Mr. William Cherry, of Leeton, narrowly escaped being burned alive during the absence of her parents, but was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire At Goldsbrough Mort Wool Store Great Damage Done MELBOURNE
Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.'s wool store, in Bourke street, was partly destroyed by lire on Saturday night, and many prize stud sheep, penned…
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