Mittagong Fire Brigade Mittagong
Bush fires are prevalent, and the local fire brigade is on the watch. A motor fire-engine is urgently required it would be impossible to reach the scene…
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Forests Doomed Riverina Fires Checked in Places Wagga
During the week-end, the Riverina bush fires were cheoked, though large areas of forest are thought to be doomed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Day for the Brigades Widespread Fires in Sixteen Suburbs
SYDNEY was in the grip not only of the Sun God yesterday, but accompanying him was his even fiercer brother, the Fire God…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Trucks on Fire. Narrandera
About 11 o'clock yesterday morning a tire broke out in a steel truck standing a short distance from Narrandera goods sheds. The fire quickly spread to adjoining trucks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fires Add to Heat's Misery in Southern Suburbs Many Homes Menaced
MANY outbreaks of fire occurred in the southern suburbs as the result of yesterday's intense heat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Third Fire Cottage Destroyed at Fairfield
Frequently events run in cycles of three, fires especially. Last week, Fairfield had two fires by which habitations were destroyed and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mysteries of the Bush Series of Fires Blacktracker on Trail Orange
A series of mysterious bush fires, to which much suspicion attaches, occurred during the week at Amaroo, 20 miles west of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fell Down Shaft Fire-fighter's Plight Melbourne
While fighting a bush fire round the old Morning Star gold mine, at Wood's Point, Joseph Williams fell down a shaft 70 feet deep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strange Accident. Fire in Hospital. London, Feb. 8
During an operation at the Mansfield Hospital a nurse's skirt overturned a bottle of ether. The fumes spitad to a fire 14 feet distant and an explosion followed The ward…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Melbourne Fire. Board Mill Material Destroyed. Melbourne
Damage, which is estimated at £30,000, was caused by a fire which started shortly after 6 p.m. among stacks of waste spread over an acre of ground near the premises of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Seventy-five Incurables Menace at Ryde Threatened by Fire
Ryde Home for Incurables was threatened by fire from early yesterday morning until late in the afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Who Did It? Trongate Hall On Fire Incendiarism at Granville
Those who dance the light fantastic at the Trongate Hall, and those who use that building for the administration of progress association affairs nearly of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Fire Steamer Races for Port No Details Perth
The steamer Cairnhlll, which left Fremantle on January 20, flour laden for Alexandria, has wirelessed the agents that a fire board…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Burnt to Death Son's Grim Discovery Flames from Copper Fire
To walk unsuspectingly into tile kitchen and find his mother with every stitch of clothing burnt from her, was the grim experience of Thomas Vincent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Driven by Hurricane Sweeps Gerogery "Started by Spark" Albury
A BUSH FIRE at Gerogery yesterday afternoon was the most serious that has occurred this summer in the Albury district. It…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Huge Fire Near Melbourne Large Mills Ablaze Will Burn for Days Poor Water Supply Melbourne
TRAFFIC was seriously dislocated, and £60,000 worth of damage done by a fire at the Commonwealth Board Mills, Victoria Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires. Under Control. Great Damage Reported. ALBURY
Serious losses were sustained in the Gerogery and Mullengandra bush fires, which breaking out not far from Gerogery railway Btatlon yesterday afternoon, swept with…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Forest Fires
Enormous damage appears to have been wrought by the great bush fires in the State forests on Talbingo and Tumbatumba. Last year's rainfall was deficient on all that re…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →City Fire. Big Building Destroyed. Fire Officer Injured
An outbreak of fire carly this morning practically gutted the interlor of Aberdeen House, a seven-storied building at 206 Clarence-street, city…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Injured in City Fire
Deputy-Chief Officer Nancs, who was wounded by flying glass at the fire at Aberdeen House, Clarence-street, early this…
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