Fires Increase
WEST MAITLAND, Thursday. -- Bush fires principally were responsible for the increase in fires in Maitland fire district from 23 last year to 36…
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Fire Damage £40.000
Damage done by five to the premises of the Grafton Bond Store, in Kent Street, City, on Wednesday night, was estimated yesterday at…
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DEAFENING explosions, causing pandemonium, in which many children' were trampled underfoot, and blazing high…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New York Fire. Manslaughter Charge. New York, Dec. 31
William Hoffman, a house painter, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. This was the sequel to a fire in a fourstory residential in the heart of the city, as a…
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A woman was trapped in the blazing wreekage of her motor car at Moorabin early this morning and was burnt to death. The woman was Mrs. Anne Greene, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Destroys Old Tasmanian Hotel Was To Be Delicensed Next Day HOBART
On the eve of being delicensed, the White Hart Hotel at Bothwell, containing 20 rooms and more than 100 years old, was destroyed by fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →30 Trampled on in Fire Stampede Children Escape In[?]ry; Crowd Of 3000 Hampers Fighters
NEARLY 30 children were knocked to the ground and trampled on in a rush[?] safety last night, when 200 people, watching [?] stampeded in a narrow lane, following the explosion of a drum of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sailors on French Sloop Take Pride in Their Vessel — Timber Yard Fire— Cricketers at Squash Racquets
Left: A respite. Work and leisure make up the life of a sailor in port, as these pictures of men of the French Sloop Rigault de Genouilly show. Above: Cleaning an anti-aircraft gun…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fighting Fires. New Methods Adopted. Brigade's Work in 1936
Calls to fires in Sydney and its suburbs in 1936 did not quite reach the record total established in 1935, but they were very close to it…
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District Officer Edward Park received chest injuries when the third floor broke through at last night's fire (story and pictures on page 12)…
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As flames gutted three floors of Robson House, in Pitt-street, near Liverpool-street, last night a crowd of 8000 watched. Yet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brass Means Fire Brigade Efficiency New Black Hat Has Little Chance
The fireman's brass helmet of tradition is not likely to be superseded in N.S.W. by a new model…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£40,000 Damage in Last Night's City Fire Pitt Street Building Shooting Flames Drew Crowds
THE three top floors of Robson House, a seven-storey building at 338a Pittstreet, near Liverpool-street, were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Blaze in Serious Fire Zone
SATURDAY night's disastrous fire at Robson House, in Pitt Street, near Liverpool Street, City, occurred in what is listed at Fire…
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All that was left of the caretaker's daughter's bed after the disastrous fire in Robson House, Pitt Street, on Saturday night…
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New air foam apparatus, recently secured by the New South Wales Fire Brigade, was used to extinguish a fire at Joyce Bros., Cooper-street, city…
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The condition to-day of District Officer E. H. Parkes, who was injured on Saturday night during the fire in Robson Building, Pitt-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Bug at Work on Farms
WAGGA, Sunday.--Matchboxes arranged in such a manner that fires would be caused in the Euroly district by the sun have been revealed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire in City. £40,000 DAMAGE. Fireman Buried in Debris
A crowd of nearly 20,000 persons assembled in Pitt, Liverpool, and Castlereagh streets on Saturday night to watch firemen fight a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£10,000 Damage in Hall Fire Benzine-Soaked Rags Found AUCKLAND
Incendiarism is the suspected cause of a fire which destroyed Runanga Miners' hall and an adjoining dwelling…
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