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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1925

2,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 104

Fire Fighters' Pay. Increases Offer

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 4

THE Board of Fire Commissioners have made the following offer of increased of pay, privileges, etc., to representatives of…

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A Fireman Killed Two More Hurt Struck by Fall of Masonry Tragic Melb, Blaze Melbourne

Evening News · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 1

ONE fireman was killed and two others were injured by falling masonry while on duty at a fire which completely…

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Fire at Edgecliff. Stoke Destroyed. Cockatoos Give Alarm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 11

Two cockatoos, pets of the couplers, by wild cries, gave the alarm when an outbreak of fire occurred in the second-hand store of Albert Edward Royal, at 8 Glebe-street,…

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FIRE-RESISTING Value of Metal Laths Protecting the Home

Evening News · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 10

If an archit[?] and engineer and all incendi[?]rs were to get then heads together they could hardly [?] a better [?]struction for…

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Build Up the Fire He Did It With Gelignite Six Lads in Camp Hobart

The Sun · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 9

When the fire was not burning too well one of six young men at a weekend camp in a hut at Cornelian Bay, put a plug of gelignite on it…

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300 Are Idle After Big Blaze Melbourne

Evening News · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 10

MELBOURNE experienced another disastrous fire last night, when damage estimated at £50,000 was caused by a spectacular outbreak at…

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Fire at Ballina. Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 10

A fire occurred at midnight on Saturday in the centre of the main business block, Residents returning home from a dance noticed a flickering light in Mr. Clark's drapery…

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Fire in Canefield. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 12

Another sugarcane fire is reported from Wardell, nine acres being damaged. On the previous occasion 20 acres were burnt. Both fields are in the same locality, belonging to…

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Fire Found in Time Toowoomba

The Sun · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 10

The timely discovery of a fire on Monday night in the ironmongery department of one of Toowoomba's biggest emporiums, Messrs. Gobbett and…

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Huge Factory Is Gutted Lincoln Spinning Mills Damage Probably £200,000 Spectacular Melbourne Blaze Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 5

TWO THIRDS OF THE HUGE Lincoln Knitting and Spinning Mills at Coburg were razed to the ground when fire swept the storerooms of the knitting and weaving sections to-night. THE DAMAGE, though not yet assessed by the company, must be in…

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Great Fire. Woollen Mills. Immense Damage. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 9

More than half of the promises of the Lin[?] Knitting and Spinning Mills at Coburg was completely destroyed by fire to-night. Grout damage was done…

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Fatal Fire. Collapse of Wall. Fireman Killed. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 9

One fireman was killed and another seriously injured while fighting a fire which destroyed the promises of S. B. Harris Pty., Ltd., in Knox-lane, in the heart of the city, at an early…

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Huge Fire in Melbourne Knitting Mills in Flames Damage Estimated at £500,000 MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 1

Eight hundred unemployed, and a loss of £400,000 or £500,000, will follow a fire which destroyed the knitting section of the Lincoln…

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Like Bushfire How Lincoln Mills Burned £600,000 Damage Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 13

The damage caused by the fire which destroyed the Lincoln Knitting and Spinning Mills at Coburg last night is estimated at between £500.000…

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Fire Bugs? Figure Near the Petrol Steamer Blaze

The Sun · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 10

Tee police are inquiring into the possibility that tho fire on the North Coast steamer Coombar last night was the work of an incondiarist…

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Blaze on Petrol Ship Coombar Fire Timely Warning a Lucky Escape

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 1

WITH between four and five hundred cases of petrol stowed on the decks, the consequences of a fire which broke out in the fo[?] of the…

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The Lincoln Mills Blaze Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 1

About 500 employees, mostly women are out of work as a result of the fire which destroyed the Lincoln Knitting Mills at Coburg last night…

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Fire on Steamer. Timely Discovery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 16

Just before 6 o'clock last night Captain Rippon, of the North Coast Company's steamer Coombar, attracted to the forecastle by a flicker of light which caught his eye, found…

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Hard on Girls Lincoln Mills Fire Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 5

Estimates of damage done to the Lincoln knitting and spinning mills, when part of the factory was burnt out last night have been made…

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Spinning Mills. Recent Fire. Damage Exceeds £500,000. MELROURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 13

The damage to the Lincoln Knitting and Spinning Mills, caused by the fire last night, was to-day officially estimated as in excess of £500,000…

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