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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1929

2,964 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 149

Botany Woollen Works Swept by Fire Great Damage Is Done Two Firemen Are Injured One Champion Runner

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 1

MANY thousands of pounds' damage was caused lust night when the major portion of the major portion of the fellmongering department of the Australian Wool and Produce Company, Limited. Beauchamp Street, Botany, was swept by fire…

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BUSHFIRE. Damage in Northern Victoria. Terror-stricken People. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 16

A sudden devastating bushfire broke out at Laceby, near Wangaratta, this morning, and soon attained a front of five miles in high dry grass…

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Big Fire Outbreak at Botany Woollen Mills Eight Brigades Make Good Save Fireman Falls from Roof, and Is Cut by Hot, Jagged Iron Thousands of Bales Ruined

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 3

Thousands of bales of wool were destroyed when fire raced through a big portion of the Australian Wool and Produce Co.'s mills at Botany last night. The damage will run into thousands of pounds, and many…

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Cordon of Flame Minor Bush-fires Numerous Outbreaks

The Labor Daily · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 1

"Fires in every subur[?]." reported the officer-in-charge at Headquarters yesterday, and although lite report may have been slightly exaggerated…

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On a Fifteen-mile Front Bush-fires Menace Portland Homes Threatened Portland

The Labor Daily · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 1

A fire which has been raging in the Mountains for the pant fortnight yesterday approached to within three miles of the Portland-Cullen Bullen…

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Oil Blaze Brigade's Quick Work Two Fires

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 13

Quick work by the brigades prevented a serious fire at J. H. Gardiner and Co., oil merchants, 250 Elizabeth-street, shortly after noon to-day…

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Colliery Ablaze Set Alight by Bush Fire Serious Position Northumberland Mine Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 1

BUSH FIRES in the Sassifern Valley enveloped the upper structure of the Northumberland Colliery this evening…

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From Page 14 Oil Store Blaze

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 11

The management of J. H. Gardiner and Co., oil merchants, Elizabeth-street, City, state that the fire at their premises to-day will not affect the delivery of oil…

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Red Ruin Again Sweeps Many Country Areas Bush Fires Bring Widespread Damage and Danger Hundreds Join Grim Fight Against Flames Sheep Burned at Bathurst Northern Ranges Ablaze

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 3

A landscape murky with acrid smoke gave way last night to red-lit skies as bush fires in a. hundred suburban and country places flared in a blistering wind. Pathetic scenes of death rushes of sheep mobs and of…

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50-Mile Front Blaze on North Coast Many Other Fires Newcastle Mine Outbreak--£10,000 Damage Taree

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 13

Fires are raging for 50 miles on end along this section of the coastal country. Great damage has already been done. It is feared that several houses have been destroyed, while many…

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Station Swept Big Blaze at Coolah Coolah

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 11

A fire, which has been smouldering in Bollen Scrub for three weeks, spread to Oakey Creek station yesterday. Fanned by a strong wind, the flames quickly…

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A New Trawler Arrives-- --Oil Blaze Quelled in Time

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 24

FARM APPRENTICES for Queensland arrived on the Orvieto this morning. They were later received at the Queensland Government offices. LONG VOYAGE OVER.--Bringing a small trawler out from England is not all beer and skittles. So the crew, were happy when the Samuel Benbow tied up this morning. Captain Hall has a pipe in his mouth…

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Fire Risk at Kogarah

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 13

So dense and dry is the scrub, and so stark is the risk of fire, the consequent loss of property, and probably [?]e, that the Kogarah Council last…

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Wool Store Fire at Botany

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 14

The fire gutted a section of the premises of the Australian Wool and Produce, Ltd. The damage is estimated at £30,000…

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Victim of Boat-shed Fire Dead

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The burns which Cedrie Swallow (23) received in the Yarra Yarra boat-shed fire on Monday resulted in his death…

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Oil Tins Explode City Fire Sensation

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 12

FIREMEN from headquarters and other stations made a good save to-day, when a fire broke out in the storeroom of J. H. Gardiner and Co., oil merchants,…

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Bakery Destroyed by Fire. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 14

Late last night a fire broke out in a building in Dean-street, owned by Cross Bros., and occupied by C. and E. Friend, bakers and pastrycooks. Considerable damage was done…

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Fire Engine--cart Collision at Gladesville

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 13

A fire engine, on the way to a bush fire, and a milk cart collided to-day in Groat North-road, Gladesville, The driver of the cart, John Baxter,…

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What Daylight Disclosed at Botany Fire

The Labor Daily · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 1

A scene of ruin and havoc within the crumbling walls of the Australian Wool and Produce Company's works Botany which wore burnt out on Tuesday night…

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On Fire Thrill for Passengers Railway Bridge

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 17

Passengers on the train from Kempsey bad a thrilling Journey yesterday as the train ran through, a blazing valley between Gloucester and…

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