Aircraft for Bush Fires
In view of the losses suffered by farmers and graziers through outbreaks of bush fires during a dry summer following a good season, it is interesting to note the methods which have…
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Fire Calls Record Established 3715 ALARMS
During the year ended yesterday 3715 fire-calls were received by the brigades in Sydney. This is a record. The total exceeds last year's…
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During the year 1926 NewcastIe District Fire Brigades dealt with 250 fires, must of which were in bush and grass. Thu mileage covered by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring World Fires Are Out of Date No Wilful Acts These Days It Does Not Pay
It is not every motorist's desire to burn his car, though there may be tithes when he feels like doing so. With trading-in advantages so bright the risk a motorist takes in setting his car on fire would not compensate him…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Busy Fire Year Alarms 3715 Increase of 1543 Extension of Brigades
UP to noon yesterday 3715 alarms to fires had been recorded during the year in the Sydney the district being an increased of 1543 over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday's Destructive Blaze
his sketch was specially made for the "Labor Daily." It shows the fire[?] attacking the outbreak from Nithsdale Street, at the rear of the stricken building…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Metters' Fire Tottering Walls May Stand Trams Can't Run Thrills of Blaze Embers' Fiery Trail
THE WAILS of Metters, Limited, which in the heat of the great fire that gutted the place yesterday, tottered and swayed, and were in…
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METTERS' BUILDING, IN ELIZABETH-STREET, WAS GUTTED, THE DAMAGE BEING ESTIMATED AT £135,000…
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The New Year Spirit at the Highland Gathering. At the turn in, Tatersall's cup race.--Five horses racing and only two hoofs are on the ground. The order is Queen Alwyne (rails), Bacchus (outside), Tibbie (the winner), Dartmoor, and Donald. Yesterday's big city fire, which gutted Metters' six-storey building and caused damage approximating £1[?]0,000…
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BLACKENED AND CALCINED BRICK WALLS pierced by holes that once were windows. How the ruin of Metters' building looked to-day after the fire had eaten out every floor. [?]LLE Of THE BLUEY.--Surely a blanket swag has never reposed on fairer shoulders than these. This couple went on a walking tour from Melbourne to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Liverpool Fire Inquiry to Be Held
An inquiry will be held At the Liverpool Court House during this week into the circumstances surrounding a fire that occurred at Mr. Les…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gutted by Fire Two Cottages Melbourne
Two shops at Warburton, one occupied by H. Gairn, butcher, and the other by H. Scully, storekeeper, were gutted by fire to-day…
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The police arrested two omen, J. F. Jeffrey and F. Tesseyman, for allged careless use of fire. It is alleged that the men, who are labourers, were camped on the 17-mile reserve,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. Thomas Nance. Long Fire Brigade Service
After 31 years' service in the New South Wales Fire Brigades, Deputy Chief Officer Thomas Nance has been included in the New, Year honours list as recipient of the King's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Town Swept by Fire Stanhope Wrecked Man Trapped by Smoke Fumes No Fire Apparatus Melbourne
HALF the town of Stanhope was razed to the ground by a havocwrenking fire, which broke out New Year's Day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Outbreaks of Fire. Record Year. Heavy Losses Sustained
A record number of fires occurred in Sydney during 1926, the damage amounting to many hundreds of thousands of pounds. The alarms of fire numbered 3715, being 1543 in excess of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire at Stanhope. Thirteen Shops Destroyed. Melbourne
A fire swept the main street of Stanhope, a small town about 100 miles from Melbourne, on Saturday afternoon. The origin of the fire, which bloke out in a shop, is not known…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →King's Medal Deputy Fire Chief Active Voluntary Worker
A popular New Year honor is that of the King's Police Medal awarded Mr. Thomas Nance, Deputy Chief Officer of the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Awake All Night Tenants Afraid of Bulging Wall Metters' Big Blaze Stiff Breeze Fans Flames to Furnace Heat
Fearing that the rear wall of Metters' building would collapse on six two-storied houses in Nithsdale-street, police and fire officials last night ordered the residents to leave the premises. But they were reluctant to go. Several men slept soundly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£150,000 Damage in Sensational City Blaze Brigades' Great Fight Metters' Buildings Gutted Whole Block Endangered Firemen's Narrow Escapes
Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Fire Brigade headquarters received a call to a fire which gutted Metters' six-storey brick building and did damage estimated at £150,000…
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