Fire Fighting Equipment
Portable water sprays have been used extensively by fire fighters for many of the smaller outbreaks of fire and grass fires in Victoria this week…
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2,356 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 118
Fires Threaten Forests Near Canberra. Canberra
Serious bushfires are ravaging forests in the mountains south of Canbeua. Large areas of the Cotter River catchment, which supplies the city with water, are being burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →9-Hour Fight, Factory Fire
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--After a nine-hour fight, the fire in the Sanitarium Health Food Company's factory, at Cooranbong, was extinguished at 8 this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Die in Fires Vic. Deaths Now 23 MELBOURNE
A MAN and a woman were burnt to death to-day in Victorian bushfires, bringing the death-roll to 23…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Hose Cut Alleged: Men Jeer
Firemen from Darlinghurst Brigade, called to a bonfire early on New Year's morning, found their hoses cut…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Dunc" Gray Stops Motor Cycle Fire
E. L. ("Dunc.") Gray, Olympic cyclist, used a fire extinguisher yesterday on a blazing motor cycle. The cycle caught fire in Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smoke and Heat at Garden Party. (Guests Leave to Fight Fires. CANBERRA
Many guests at a garden party given by the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, at Government House, in honour of the Science Congress delegates to-day, had…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Danger of Fire to Electric Cable. County Council Fears
Fears have arisen that the dry peat in the subsoil may ignite and damage the Sydney County Council's 33,000-volt cable adjacent to the Sydenham-Botany railway line…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →By the Camp Fires with Dr. Donald Thompson.—ii. Island Adventure. a Race With Death to Bennet Bay. Unfriendly Tribesmen
A south-east gale was blowing right into the estuary as the St. Nicholas beat out across the shallow bar of the Roper River. For several hours we drove into a heavy sea in the teeth of the gale, and throughout the night the vessel rolled heavily, taking in a good deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Five Child Victims in Victorian Fires. Man Also Burnt to Death. Desperate Search for Many Missing Towns Abandoned in Race for Life. Melbourne
Six more people—a man and five children—were burned to death in bushfires in Victoria to-day, bringing the known deathroll to 27. Many persons are being treated in hospitals for serious…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Bushfire
The bushfire came in glory, A festival of flame; It danced across the forest, The victim of its game,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Preparing Dug-outs for Bushfires — N.z. Scouts Leave for Home — Far West Boys Learn to Swim
Mill hands at Ezards No. [?] mill in the Erica district, Victoria, filling drums with drinking water in their underground dugout when bushfires endangered the mill on Wednesday. Below: Refugees from the district being fed. New Zealand Scouts waving…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →For Women Bushfires in Canberra Cause Discomfort at Garden Party. From Our Special Representative. Canberra
A hot westerly wind blowing across the lawns made conditions unpleasant for the garden party held at Yarralumla this afternoon by the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →S. Australian Victims First Bushfire Tragedies ADELAIDE
The first tragedies in South Australia's bush fires were reported to-day. The victims were the four-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Horrors Mount in Victorian Bushfires 29 Die As Towns Are Wiped Out Hundred Timber-workers & Their Families Were Safe In Dugouts MELBOURNE
Twenty-two persons have been burnt to death at Woods Point, where yesterday afternoon two elderly sisters, the Misses O'Keefe, were incinerated in their store. Seven additional deaths were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ring of Bushfires Round Sydney People Badly Injured On Blue Mountains
All metropolitan and suburban fire brigades were ordered at one time or another to-day to fight bushfires, of which 200 had been reported up to 5 p.m. It was one of the most strenuous and trying days for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Starter Was Held Up By Bushfires
Mr. Bert Page, deputy caretaker at Randwick racecourse, acted as starter at the Warwick Farm meeting this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Women's News Called Home To Fight Bushfires CANBERRA
All through the afternoon at the Vice-Regal reception given today, telephone calls were coming to Government House…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Three More Deaths in Bushfires Half Victoria Ablaze As Flames Leap Up Again Melbourne
Two men find a Woman were incinerated today in Victorian bushfires, bringing the death roll to 23. An elderly invalid woman, whose name is not yet known, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Films of Bushfires
Graphic pictures of the tragic Victorian bushfires are being screened at the State Newsreel Theatrette. Other items include the visit of Mr. H. G…
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