150 Acres Burnt Wagga Grass Fire Wagga
AN AREA of about 150 acres of grass was destroyed by fire at the Wagga Experiment Farm. Panned by a strong wind, the blaze…
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Water-front Fire. Steamer Burned. New York, Dec. 30
The steamer Seneca, of 2963 tons, owned by the Clyde Steamship Company, of New York, was burned, probably beyond salvage, and two piers were destroyed when a spectacular fire…
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ALBURY, Sunday.--Extensive bush fires, resulting from severe heat and high winds, are raging in the Jindera and Wodonga districts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sun Causes Fire in Shop Window Outbreak in King St
Heat of the sun is thought to have caused a fire in one of the window of Saunders Ltd., Central Square…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Fiend Races in Victoria Homes in Peril Melbourne
BUSH FIRES are causing much damage in the country about Wengaratta. B[?]worth, and other districts in the North eastern area of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sun's Rays. Blamed for a Fire. Damage in Shop Window
The great heat of yesterday morning is supposed to have caused a fire in one of the windows of A. Saunders, jeweller, in [?]tralsquarc…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Buildings Destroyed. Fire in Adelaide. Damage £20,000. ADELAIDE
Damase to the extent of more than £20,000 was done at about 3 o'clock this morning, when a block of buildings occupied chiefly by Wilcox. Mofflin, Limited, hide, skin, and wool…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Swept by Storm and Fire Town Under Mantle of Dust
ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Terrific gales have been raging in parts of the State, and at Moorook yesterday the velocity of the wind, with its volumes of sand…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Destructive Fire at Adelaide Whole Block Gutted Offices and Stores Adelaide
The metropolitan are brigade was congratulating itself an experiencing the first uneventful New Year's Eve for many years. when at 2.30 a.m. to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Engine Turns Turtle Taxi As Hose Carrier Policeman's Wrist Is Fractured Cessnock
An accident which befell the motor fire engine last evening, while attended with unfortunate circumstances, compiled in a striking manner the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Engine Bogged on Steep Hill Hose and Men Transfer to Taxi Civilians Assist
CESSNOCK, Sunday.--When the large motor fire engine was climbing Kempe's Hill, the steepest in the town, on its way to an outbreak in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many False Fire' Alarm's: Sydney's Year Over 6,000,000 Gals. of Water Used by Board Country Records
It took 6,280,850 gallons of water to put out Sydney's fires last year, and 252,000 feet of hose was used in the operations…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fires. Border Outbreaks. ALBURY
The cool change in the weather last night and to-day has enabled fire-fighters to [?] with the extensive outbreaks of fire in the border districts. The fires were closely…
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Fire partially destroyed Loon Louls' box factory In Coward Street. Mascot, and the home of Frederick Kennedy, at the rear of the factory, In…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Fires Waverley, Punchbowl
A fire broke out in the laundry at the rear of the home of Mrs. Mary Lamond, Edward-street, Waverley, to-day. The laundry and its contents…
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A fire broke out in the roof of 38a Pitt-street shortly after 1 o'clork yesterday mornnoon. Headquarter brigade, under Deputy-Chief Officer Nance, extinguished the outbreak with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Year's Fires Two Prove Fatal Newcastle
During 1927 Newcastle district the brigades responded to 180 fire calls. There were two [?] accidents, two women dying from severe burns…
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Scene at the big fire at Lewis's box factory, Coward Street, Mascot, which broke out early last night. Considerable damage was done, and for a time buildings in the vicinity were in danger…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at Grenfell Gruntell
The second are at [?] within a week occurred on [?] night when a weatherboard residence owned and [?]pled by Samuel Jeffries, was born to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crackers Fire a Club Cairns
Smouldering crackers, which had been used during a dance on New Year's eve, are believed to have caused a fire which destroyed the Italian…
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