Clothes on Fire. Switchboard Worker Badly Burnt
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1934 · page 23
Terrible burns were suffered by Ernest Kirkpatrick, 48, an electrician, of Ingham-avenue, Haberfield, when his clothing caught fire in an electrical sub-station in Castlereagh-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Two Left Family of Nine Home on Fire Prairie Tragedy Vancouver
The Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1934 · page 1
TRAPPED in their farm-house while a gale howled outside, Mrs. Philip Gillespie, aged 34, and six of her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bravery Of Roughrider Risked Life Saved Six Horses Stable Fire Seven Perished Melbourne
The Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1934 · page 17
PLUNGING barefooted into fiercely burning stables at Ballarat-road, Footscray, seven times, early to-day, A…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Saved Horses From Fire Third Stable Blaze in a Fortnight
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 9
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Barefooted and dazed with burns and smoke, A. W. Cakebread, well-known horseman and rough-rider, dashed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →House Destroyed Blacktown Blaze
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 6
Mystery surrounds the origin of a fire which destroyed a four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Pyes-road, Blacktown, early on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Liverpool Fire Station
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 7
Approval has been given to the preparation of sketch plans for the erection of an officer's quarters at the Liverpool Fire Station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Want Fire-station Wentworthville Move
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 6
An effort to secure the establishment of a fire station at Wentworthville is to be made by Holroyd Council…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →House Destroyed by Fire. Casino
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 12
Returning from a nearby store, Mrs. W. Hendley, of Colches-street, found her home, which she had left only a few minutes earlier, enveloped in flames. The Fire Brigade was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Leaky Fire Hose Alderman's Serious Statement
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 4
At Dundas Council meeting last sight, Alderman Rhodes, a business man of the district, made a statement to the effect that at a lire in the district on Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Hurt Liverpool Explosion and Fire
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 11
When a tin of methylated spirits exploded at Bartle's Cash Grocery, Terminus-street, Liverpool, on Monday morning, William Petley (10) received…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir Sampson Sladen. Former London Fire Brigade Chief
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 12
Lieutenant-Commander Sir Sampson Sladen, R.N., who directed the City of London's fire brigades for ten years, including the war, when air raids were frequent, was a passenger by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Big Fire. All Men Out. in City. Hat Factory
The Sun · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 9
ALL city stations were sent shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon to fight a big fire in a hat factory in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fatal Fire in Racing Stables Victorian Trainer's Wife Is Victim
Referee · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 5
MRS. W. MURRELL, 26, one o the leading horsewomen of Victoria, was fatally burned in trying to save her show horse, Garryowen and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stavisky's Finger In L'Atlantique Fire. Romantic Chase Through Blizzards. "Proofs" Secured. Suspect As Spies. Dramatic Bargain. London
The Sun · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 1
AFTER "nightmare" journeys through Swiss blizzards, a band of Englishmen obtained documents which will enable London underwriters to appeal against the verdict of the Paris courts that they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£6000 Blaze Foveaux St. Factory
The Labor Daily · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 5
A spectacular £6000 blaze gutted the top floor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Victim's Relapse
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Mr. W. Murrell, the racehorse trainer and former jockey, who was burned in saving his late wife from the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cottage on Fire
The Biz · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 1
A weatherboard cottage in Stanleystreet, Lidcombe, owned and occupied by Edward Frederick Fowler, was severely damaged by fire on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Factory on Fire at Surry Hills
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 8
Damage estimated at £5000 resulted following a fire in the factory of Merretfs Ltd., hat manufacturers. Foveaux-street, Surry Hills, late yesterday afternoon. Nearly 100 employees were unaware of their danger when the fire brigades arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disease Epidemic Follows Fire Tokio
The Labor Daily · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 5
An epidemic of diputhe[?] and [?]arlet fever has broken out in Hakocate, and the lives of 95,000 homeless refugees are endangered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Liverpool Fire Station Erection of New Quarters
The Biz · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 2
The Board of Fire Commissioners informed Liverpool Council on Tuesday night that it had approved of the preparation of sketch plans for the erection…
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