Cronulla Fire Siren
"The summer season is now approaching, and it will mean that this siren will be used nearly every day," said a Cronulla resident at the last…
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1000 Men Fight Forest Fires Our Own Cable Service
MONTREAL, Wednesday.--A thousand men are desperately fighting the forest fires, sweeping a best 50 miles wide, near fort Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cast From Window Woman Saved In Fire
Trapped in a blazing room when he went to rescue his aunt, at Coogee early to-day, John Shepherd, 27, threw…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forest Fires. Fourteen Lives Lost. Women's Heroism. Fort Frances (Ontario), Oct. 12
Fourteen lives have been lost in a forest fire, which is sweeping homesteads over an area of 50 miles wide. The remains of two women and nine…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at a Store Two Men for Trial
After an inquiry at Parramatta Court on Tuesday into a fire in a grocery store, occupied by William McClure in Wentworth Avenue. Toongabble, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Women, Children Die in Big Forest Fire Toronto
AT least 17, including several women and a number of children, have been burned to death in forest fires which are raging near Fort Francis. The blaze has devastated an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Destroys Stock Randwick Cleaner's Run Of Ill-Luck
A month ago, Francis Henry Wheeler's brother was killed in a smash; a fortnight later, his mother died; to-day his entire stock was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boy Allegedly Set on Fire. Paint Thinner on Clothes. Two Youths Charged. Melbourne
Allegations that highly inflammable liquid was poured down the back of a boy in a factory in West Brunswick, that a match was struck, that his…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cartridge in Fire
GOULBURN, Thursday. -- Exploding after it had been thrown in a fire by boys indulging in a game, a 303 calibre cartirdge seriously injured Ronald…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oil Fire Raging
NEW YORK, Thursday.--An oil fire is reported to be raging over a large area in New Jersey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Guts Cleaner's Shop
FLAMES from a fire which destroyed a dry cleaner's shop in Belmore Road, Randwick, yesterday, shot out into the centre of the road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dog Gives Fire Alarm
FIRE destroyed a weatherboard cottage in Pearce Street, Coogee, early yesterday morning. John Shepherd, 27, was awakened…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fight Fire in Sulphur
WEARING gas masks, firemen from four stations successfully fought a fire which broke out in several tons of sulphur at a Balmain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shop Swept by Fire
A spark from an electric motor working a machine at the Major Dry Cleaning Laundry Service, in Belmore Road Randwick, yesterday, started a fire which swept through the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Burned Fighting Fire in Garage
Kevin Hynes, 21, of Bellevue Street, Arncliffe, was severely burned last night attempting to extinguish a fire in a garage at his home…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Palestine Murders Arabs Fire Factory LONDON
Terrorists continue to commit outrages throughout Palestine, Arabs and Jews being kept in dread by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saves Aunt, Loses Home In Birthday Fire
ON his 29th birthday yesterday, John Shepherd lost all his possessions in a fire, and went to work to discover that he had also lost his job. However, he consoles himself…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sulphur Fire. Firemen Use Gas Masks. Chemical Works Outbreak
Firemen had to use Proto breathing apparatus, gas masks, and Bellows's smoke helmets when they fought a fire in the sulphur mill at the works of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire Caused by Lightning. Garage and Car Destroyed. Man Badly Burned
Alan Kevin Hynes, 21, was badly burned last night when a garage in which he was working at the rear of his home in Bellevue Street, Arncliffe[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Car Catches Fire
SYDNEY POULTON, 20, of Austral M Street. Kogarah, was badly burned last night while trying to extinguish a fire in his car…
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