Magic Bow As Fire Extinguisher an Effective Screech New York, February 2
Mr. Charles Kellogg, a Californian scientist, gave firemen a demonstration of extinguishing a gas flams, two feet high, by sound or…
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"Rope of Velour From Fire-escape" Story of Arrest at City Warehouse
"ABOUT sixteen yards of velour was hanging like a rope from the fire escape down into Yorklane" said Constable Kimber, when…
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A house at Belgrave, Victoria, in the grip of the fire fiend…
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Bush fires have been reported from many parts of New South Wales and Victoria during the past week. The continued dry weather and intense…
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According to reports the bush fires experienced this summer have been the most disastrous since 1900. During last week-end the weather…
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Five acres of grass land on Dorothy Mount, Wentworthville, were burnt on Wednesday morning. This in itself, means little, but the…
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The fire fiend loose in the Victorian Bush.--A week-end home caught by a bush fire at Belgrave. Where Motor Lorry Crashed.--The Devil's Elbow, Sassafras Road, Fern Tree Gully, 27 miles from Melbourne, where three were killed and fifteen injured on Monday when a lorry ran into the bank in the foreground. The N.S.W. Fire Brigades Cricket Team which played the Victorian Brigades at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Under Control Holbrook Bush Fires Smoke Obscures Sun Albury
Between 50 and 60 men are still engaged fighting fires in the vicinity of Holbrook. The general opinion is that the flames are now under control…
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The continuance of the heat wave incroased the anxieties in regard to bush fires, the principal of which are in the district between the Murray River, at Jingellic, and Holbrook…
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BUSH fires are still burning on the Dadenong Ranges area, and concern is fell in the Healesville district…
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Panels of Fencing and a large area of grass were burnt in a fire which occurred on Thursday in the Auburn Chemical Works, Parramatta-road…
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Two disastrous fires occurred on Saturday The first was at the residence of Mr. Manning, of Liverpool road, on the Fairfield boundary. The building, which…
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Half an acre of grass and scrub was burnt in an outbreak which occurred on Thursday afternoon, January. 28, at Chertsey and St. Ann's roads, Granville…
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The extensive bush fires, which have devastated from 100,000 to 200,000 acres of mountain country, and are still burning between the…
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Again, this week, there were a number of outbreaks of bush fire in the northern district between Beecroft and Normanburst. In every case, the flames were…
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On Monday afternoon a fire swept through Ruby street the business thoroughfare of Tirigha, and the space of 2 miles of…
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N.S.W. and Victorian fire chiefs watching the firemen's match in Melbourne. Left to right: Mr. J. E. Mason (Melbourne), Mr. F. Jackson (head of the N.S.W. brigades) and Mr. J. F. Wilkins (head of the Victorian brigades)…
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Burning rubbish set fire to the fence surrounding the Lidcombe Catholic Church on the afternoon of February 1. Two panels of fencing were burnt…
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After a week of hot weather a bush fire broke out on Mr. Mitchell Brown's property, Wyoming, a few miles out. It spread quickly to D'Arcy's property…
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Through a defective flue, fire extensively damaged on Saturday morning a five roomed cottage, occupied by Victor Boyd, in Good-street, Granville…
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