Water Boiled in Hose. Concord Fire. Brigade's Good Save
Employees who manned the emergency fire hose when a fire broke out on the premises of the New South Wales Produce Company, stock and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fires & bushfires, 1938
1,967 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 99
Police Fire On Suspects
PURSUING three men be suspected of housebreaking at Mosman yesterday, Detective Hargreaves fired two shots. The men escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alexandria Fire. Outbreak After Firm's Removal
A short time after Gibson, Battle, and Co. Pty., Ltd., engineers and machinery merchants, had moved the last load of material to new premises yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Two Suburban Factories Swept by Fire
TWO suburban factories were swept by fire yesterday. In one outbreak hundreds of docks were destroyed. LAST consignment of machinery and plant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car on Fire
A car belonging to Mr. A. Fairfax, of Victoria-road, Bellevue Hill, was severely damaged by fire late yesterday afternoon. The blaze was…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Dancers See Morning Fire
Strong forces of firemen turned out about 2 a.m. to-day to a fire in the top floor of Walder's Building, in Pitt-street, near Liverpool-street, city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Baby's Cry Warning About Fire
Speaking from the dock in the Central Criminal Court to-day, August Frank Rasrusin. 35. quarryman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire In Main Road Bridge
SWAGMEN, it is believed, set fire to a bridge on the Hume Highway near Denham Court during the week-end. The bridge was badly charred and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sprinklers Stop Spread of Fire
WHEN a fire broke out on the third floor of the premises of S. Walder Ltd., Pitt St., city, early yesterday morning, tent and tarpaulin materials…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water Damage in City Fire
Stocks of tarpa[?] were damaged when a small fire yesterday turned on the automatic sprinklers at Samuel Walder, Ltd., tent manufacturers, Pitt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Blind Factory. Good Save by Brigade
A fire broke out in the premises of S. Walder, Ltd., blind and tent manufacturers at 340 Pitt Street, city, early yesterday morning. Damage most of which was caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Ship on Fire. Five Men Killed. Rebel Air Raid. More Towns Bombed. LONDON, June 5
Rebel bombers, in an air raid on the Spanish Loyalist port of Alicante, set fire to the British steamer Maryard, causing the death of an engineer, A…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coincidence in Fires
SEVERAL weeks ago brigadesmen extinguished a fire in escalators in Her Majesty's Arcade, City. In the some place last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launch Funnel on Fire
There was some excitement at, No. 6 Jetty, Circular Quay, last night, when flames rolled from the funnel of the launch Ettalong, which runs between Circular Quay and McMahon's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Snatched Children From Fire
AUGUST FRANK RAGUSIN, 35, quarryman, was acquitted yesterday of a charge of having caused malicious damage to a house in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storms, Fire; Exciting Voyage
AUCKLAND, (N.Z.), Monday. -- A fire in the engine-room, storms, and accidents to the crew-- These provided an exciting voyage for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Newspaper Office. Ballina
Slight damage was caused to printing machinery and paper stocks when a fire broke out at the North Coast Beacon premises shortly after 2 a.m. yesterday. The Ballina…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Acquitted of Setting Fire to His Home
August Frank Ragusin, 35, quarryman, was acquitted in the Central Criminal Court yesterday of having maliciously damaged property worth…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Eventful Voyage. Storm, Measles, and Fire. AUCKLAND
The liner Remuera had an eventful voyage from London to Auckland. A great storm was encountered near the Azores. Waves clashed aboard, and one of the cooks and a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →N0 Water to Fight Fire. Store Ablaze. £15,000 Damage. TRANGIE
When a fire broke out at 2.20 o'clock this morning in the premises of Western Stores and Edgeleys, Ltd., townspeople stood by helpless while the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →