New Fire Fighting Apparatus
The new compressed air apparatus (right) for the London Fire Brigade which will replace, the old oxygen type shown on the…
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2,356 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 118
Girl Joins Fire Fighters
Fighting alongside the men, Helen Campbell braved the flames at Bass Hill, near Bankstown and took her place in the front row of firefighters to save homes…
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A warning by Bishop Moyes of Armidale, saved the Workers' Educational Association House, Newport, from destruction by a bushfire yesterday. Later Bishop Moyes, the Minister the Director, of Physical Education…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hot On The Hardcourts Downed Racquets to Fight Fires
Forced to abandon a match because the court on which they were to have played was ringed by bushfires, members of two hardcourt tennis clubs in the Illawarra district yesterday dropped their racquets and assisted in beating out the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →"Sunday Sun" Pictorial Review Sidelights On Sydney's Heat And Fires
Firemen cool off. (Insets show amazing temperatures.) Even this few months old baby felt Adelaide's terrific heat. Too hot to sit on the sand and the water too cold for surfing in contrast, Coogee surfers stood on the water's edge at twilight. Shirtless and singletless shopper…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Radio Fire Alarms To Guard Big Forests
Wireless fire alarms for State forests will be established by the New South Wales Forestry Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Comedy And Tragedy In Fire Stories MELBOURNE
Charlie Lloyd, of Ten Mile, near Wood's Point, is 80. These bush fires are not the first he has seen and he has learned from his experiences. His house was destroyed, but searchers found him sitting in the river calmly smoking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaxieu Fights Fires; Deputy Starts Races Praise by Crowd New Official Despatches Fields Away In Line
Deputising for the official starter, Mr. J. Gaxieu, who raced away from the A.J.C. office to save his Castle Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Sydney Sport Knocked Out by Heat; Many Postponements Poor Fields In Golf, Swimming Cricket And Tennis Girls Collapsed, Riflemen Fought Fires; Bowlers' Protest
Heat struck sport a knock-out blow yesterday. Matches were abandoned in most sports, and many players, especially women, collapsed. In golf, swimming and bowls particularly, fields were far below usual Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Appalling Death Trail In Victorian Fires National Calamity Seen As Total Of Dead Soars To 64 Gutted Towns Dot Swathe of Ruin, 750 To 1000 Homes Lost, Settlements Wiped Out MELBOURNE
To-day, the blackest in Victorian history, completed the State's most terrifying week. The charred bodies of 43 people, recovered from areas swept by bush fires, brought the week's death roll to 64…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Not So Hard to Forestall Bushfires
ON any day of this burning summer, New South Wales might see the beginning of bushfire tragedies parallel with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Dead As' Bushfire Ravages N.s.w
Three people were burnt to death in bushfires which yesterday ravaged huge areas of New South Wales. Mr. J. Roach, an old-age pensioner, was burnt to death in a fire which swept thousands of acres of dairying and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heat Wave and Fire Horror N.S.W. Deaths 13: City Records 113.6 Degrees Flames Carry Calamity For Whole Nation Increasing Toll Of Victorian Lives Reveals Extent Of Holocaust
Thirteen people lost their lives yesterday in New South Wales during the most terrific heat wave in the State's history when the temperature in the city reached the record of 113.6 degrees at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show Stopped by Bush Fires
DAPTO, Sunday.--Dapto Show was called off yesterday because of the bushfires. The postponed show will be held on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters Causes of Bush Fires. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—It is to be hoped that the remarks of Mr. E. H. P. Swain, Commissioner of Forests, as well as your editorial, have been noted by all Once again have we witnessed the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires to Stop Fires
Firebreaks were used in a desperate effort to check the spread of fierce fires on the mountain over the week-end. At Glenbrook this firebreak saved a row of houses in the pa lb of a bushfire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Refugees From Fires
Their homes lost in the fires which have ravaged Victoria during the past week, these women and their children, at Warburton, sought refuge from the flames and heat in the waters of the River Yarra…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Editorial The Lesson Of The Fires
In three Slates the retrospect of the week contemplates loss of life, burnt out homes, and miles of blackened forests. Over 70 lives and loss estimated at £10.000,000 have gone up in flames…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Great Destruction in Castle Hill Fires
Many fine homes disappeared before the relentless onslaught of the bushfires in the Castle Hill district, on Saturday, and scenes such as this on a property in Old Castle Hill Road, were common. The building was afire and destroyed before anything could be done to save it…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire-Fighters Helpless
HELPLESSLY, fire-fighters near Mittagong watched flames destroy these valuable gums. Intense heat on Saturday drove fire-fighters back, giving the fire unfettered control of forest country…
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