Has No Fire Engine Position at Lambton Newcastle
A though heavy premiums, are paid to the Fire Brigades Board by the Lambton Council, the municipality has to be content with a hand-drawn reel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires & bushfires, 1926
3,561 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 179
EXPLOSION. Ship on Fire. John Alce at Darwin. Darwin
The ex-Government schooner John Alce was badly damaged yesterday by the explosion of an oil tank on board prior to her departure for Thursday Island to join a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Desperate Fight Big Damage in Garage Fire Owner Arrested Mudgee
A. Dover's garage and blacksmith shop, at Gulgong, together with five motor vehicles, several sulkies, a harvester, and a drill have been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire! Seven Places Destroyed No Brigade Whole Town Might Have Gone Dorrigo
One of the biggest fires that ever occurred in the Dorrigo district broke out at 2.30 a.m. to-day. Six shops and the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Stellar Ways of Stage and Screen Australian Song Writer at Lyceum -- Comedian Yearns for Tragedy--Rehearsals and Shell Fire--Screens Funniest [Villain--Reward of Good Nature Hebrew Humor the Keenest--Ballet lancer in Infancy--Duke and Peasant--The Modern Auntie -- Lover of Wild Horses -- The Mad Hatter
THE TIVOLI has a most versatile crowd of entertainers these days, and the amusement loving public of Sydney are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →City Fire Explosions in Blaze at Somerset House 40 Offices Flooded Big Turn Out of Firefighters Saves Building
Flames shot out from the roof of Somerset House, Martin- place, shortly before 1 p.m. to-day, and when they were subdued electrical motor machinery and the roof had been burnt. Altogether about 40 offices on the ten floors of the building…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DAMAGE £15,000 Dorrigo's Big Fire Dourigo
A disastrous fire here early this morning did damage estimated at £15,000. The premises occupied by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trapped by Flames Aged Victims Disastrous Fires Bush Ablaze in W.A. PERTH
THE bodies of a man of 80 and a woman of 65 were found among the ruins of a house destroyed as the result of a bush fire in the district to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Operatives' Panic. Fire at Munition Works. London, Jan. 22
Ne[?] comes from Poland that the shortcircuiting of current set fire to the Granat Metal Works, where fuses and hand-grenades are manufactured. Some of the sparks fell…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →£15,000 Damage Woollen Mills on Fire Melbourne
Fire partially destroyed the Gippsland Woollen Mills at Sale early this morning. The damage is estimated at £15,000. The plant cost from £30,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cylinder Explodes Causes Spectacular Fire Wellington (N.z.)
A cylinder of oxygen exploded in an engineering foundry late last night, and caused a spectacular fire, the premises being badly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Fire at Dorrigo. Seven Buildings Destroyed. Nearly £20,000 Damage. DORRIGO
An extensive fire occurred in Dorrigo early this morning, resulting in the destruction of a block of buildings, consisting of the Australian Bank of Commerce, Mr. A. E…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire at Top of City Building Two Lifts Damaged Motor Houses Gutted Brigades' Quick Work
THE lift motor houses at the top of Somerset House in Martin Place were gutted by a fire which was checked by the brigades before it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Explosions in Exciting City Fire
Dull explosions startled the homeward bound crowds: in Martin place at 1 p.m. yesterday. Then flames licked out from the roof of Somerset House, the ten-storied building near the Commonwealth Bank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Explosions Huge Hole Torn in C.s.r. Works Five Injured Thrills During Fire in Martin-place
Tearing asunder 375 square feet of brick wall a foot thick, a violent explosion in one of the main buildings of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's works at Pyrmont yesterday injured five workmen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires. Near Mount Buffalo. Excitement for Tourists. Albury
Extensive bush fires have been raging during the week in the hills on the Vic[?]an side of the Upper Murrny. These fires caused excitement among visitors to the Mount Buffalo…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →General News Damage by Fire
MUDGEE.--A fire occurred at Mr. A. Dover's garage and blacksmith's shop at Gulgong, and the building, with five motor vehicles, several sulkies, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wagga's New Fire Station. Wagga
Members of the Board of Fire Commissioners for the State have visited Wagga to make final arrangements for the new f[?]e station. The site selected has 66 feet frontage…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →City Fire. Somerset House. Roof Damaged
Considerable damage was caused by a fire which occurred at about 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon in Somerset House, a 10-story building in Martin-place, near the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sugar Blaze Explosion at C.s.r. Works Five Injured Thrilling Escapes From Death
FIVE MEN were seriously injured by an explosion and fire at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's works at Pyrmont on Saturday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →