Bush Fires Huge Area Swept Suburbs Suffer
The most serious bush fire occurred at Northbridge, near the Suspension Bridge. The fire broke out on the northern side of the bridge, and spread…
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Bush Fires More Raging To-day Busy Firemen
Although most of the suburban fire brigades had a busy day yesterday fighting bush fires, to-day promises to be even busier…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gaol Fires Pentridge Mysteries ''Fire Bug" Suspected MELBOURNE
Another mysterious fire outbreak at Pentridge Gaol today was extinguished quickly. The penal authorities are perturbed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Fires
NARRANDERA.--A fire, caused by lightning, broke out at "Sandside," owned by Mr. J. Innes, Widgiewa, and destroyed 700 acres of grass and some…
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The annual figures made available at the Metropolitan Fire Headquarters show that 2611 alarms of fire were received in 1923, including 337 false alarms, as against 2070 in 1922, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Factory Gutted Ashfield Blaze Firemen's Impossible Task
The blaze at Ashfield was the biggest of the day, and brigades from Ashfield, Stanmore, Headquarters. Newtown, and Leichhardt were kept…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fifty-five Fire Galls Furniture Factory Gutted Blaze at Paris House Over a Thousand Acres of Bush Burnt
Sydney suffered from an epidemic, of fires yesterday. F. A. Ainsley's furniture factory, at the back of Liverpool Road, Ashfield, was razed, and the damage is estimated at £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paris House Blaze Diners Disturbed a Brief Fight
Paris House had a full complement of guests when the alarm was raised that the offices and storeroom on top of the building was afire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Leitrim Fire Damaged Cargo
In connection with the outbreak of fire on the steamer Leitrim, on the homeward voyage from Australia, the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Damaged Fire on Leitrim
Much of the wool which was being shipped to the United Kingdom from Australian peris has evidently been damaged by the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Sawmill Brisbane
A fine save was effected yesterday at the Moorooka sawmills by South Brisbane firemen. The office building and contests were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Racecourse Fence Fire Found; Man Arrested
Doing beat duty in Kensington yesterday, Constable Frost, of Long Bay, discovered that the fence round the Kensington Racecourse was on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blaze at Dubbo Damage Estimated at Thousands Water Fails Brigade Without Ladders DUBBO
Shortly before 3 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the garage and rubber works of Laverock Bros., Macquarie Street, and before it could be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Day of Fires Sydney Encircled Word to the Wise Chief Officer's Warning
Yesterday was a day of fives. Late in the afternoon Sydney was almost ringed with flame, and between 3 and 4 o'clock, about 50…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fierce Fires. in Suburbs. Sweep Over Large Area. Hospital Surrounded. Buildings Gutted
Fanned by hot winds, devastating fires raged in many Sydney suburbs yesterday. The majority of the outbreaks originated…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in Dubbo. Motor Garage Burned. Dubbo
Laverack Bros. motor garage is Macquarie-street was completely destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock this morning. The fire spread to adjacent buildings on each side, the Berrima…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flats on Fire Furniture Out on Lawn £1500 DAMAGE
Palmerston Studio, an old building standing in spacious grounds at the foot of Dixon-stroet, Waverley, which has been converted into a block…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Roof Fell in Fire at a Flat Heirlooms Saved
There was the Sofa grandpa died on. And the time-payment escritoire—not even scratched vet…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bottles Start Fire Sun's Rays Focussed Shock for Carter
The rays of the sun being focussed through a bottle, which acted as a burning glass, was the cause of a fire on a bottle-dealer's cart yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire Coonabarabran Suffers Six Places Burnt Coonabarabran
The most destructive fire in the history of the town occurred last night. The alarm was raised at 9.30, when the fire was first noticed in the…
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