Parramatta Blaze. Old Building. Newsprint Burnt. Holiday Traffic Blocked
Newsprint valued at £300 was destroyed, and valuable machinery was damaged when an old building in George Street, Parramatta, used as…
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Fire Destroys Cottage. Orange
A five-roomed cottage, valued at £600, owned by Mr. C. E. Hambly, and occupied by Mrs. Mead, 82, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The cottage was covered by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires in 1938. Record Number of Calls. Street Alarm Thefts
In a record year for fires, firemen answered 6,123 calls in Sydney and suburbs during 1938, an increase of 2,176 of 55 per cent. on those in 1937…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Memorable Scenes. Twenty Thousand Round Camp-fire
There were remarkable scenes at the jamboree last night when 20,000 people including all the Scouts at the camp assembled in the glow of two huge…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bushfires on Four Fronts. Suspicious Outbreaks. Police Investigating. Melbourne
Police are investigating a report that there were suspicious circumstances in an outbreak of bushfires on four fronts, which menaced about 20 homes in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bushfires in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Dying embers fanned by a strong breeze caused fresh bushfires today which menaced Woodend and Mt. Macedon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Editorial The Bush-Fire Menace
N.S.W. has not yet an organised system to prevent bush fires. Disastrous Blue Mountain fires two years ago, which left "a desolated countryside and a string of burned homes," could have been stamped out in a few minutes at their beginning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victoria's Lesson on Fighting Bush Fires Whole State Is Guarded MELBOURNE
Prevention and control of bush fires in Victoria is in the hands of a highly trained staff of field officers controlling about 18,000 men, and supported by Air Force observation planes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rival Firms to Rescue Printers Burnt Out
Rival firms have come to the aid of George B. Philip and Son, printers and publishers, whose factory at Waterloo was severely damaged by fire yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion at Fire. Fierce Blaze at Waterloo. Millions of Matches
A fierce fire fed by millions of matches, followed by the explosion of 25 tons of chlorate of potash, shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →£50,000 Damage Caused by I Fire, Explosion Factory Blaze Under Control When Potash Blows Up
Damage estimated at over £50,000 was caused by a fire yesterday at the factory of Matches (Aust.). Ltd. and adjoining printing works of George B. Philip and Sons, Waterloo. The blaze was under control…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Vic. Fires Raze Thousands Of Acres
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Forestry officials deny that there is any suspicion of incendiarism in fires which have been raging in the Victorian country since…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Started Grass Fire; Fined
Arthur Bernard Jones was fined £1, costs 8, at Manly Court yesterday for having ignited inflammable material within 10 yards of grassland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Homestead Destroyed by Fire. Hay
A homestead at Ravensfield, near Mossgiel, about 80 miles from Hay, was totally destroyed by fire, together with its contents, yesterday afternoon. The fire originated in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Engine Hits Car Answering False Call
A fire engine collided with a car in York Street, City, yesterday. The car was not badly damaged. The call proved to be a false alarm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Millions of Matches Burnt in Waterloo Fire
Millions of matches were burnt prematurely when a fire occurred at the premises of Matches (Australia) Pty., Ltd., and George B. Philip and Son, printers, in Elizabeth Street, Waterloo, early yesterday. Many homes in the vicinity were damaged by the explosion of 25 tons of chlorate of potash and frequent other explosions as the flames reached stacks of matches. The pictures show, left: A fireman hosing a stack of match sticks charred by flames; and, right: Matches floating inside one…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Escape From Fire in Lodging-house Melbourne
Twenty guests at a lodging-house in Pine-avenue. Mildura, rushed into the street at 3.40 a.m. to-day, just before the blazing roof crashed in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Role for Fire-engine. Stockholm, Jan. 3
The village fire brigade at Torr[?]osa used [?] new fire-engine for the first time[?] not to fight a fire, but to succour an expectant mother who was isolated in a farmhouse. An…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Air Survey of Bushfires. Victorian Plan. Smoke Over State. Melbourne
A Royal Australian Air Force plane will make a comprehensive survey of the bushfire areas in Victoria to-morrow, and will report the position by…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Horseshoe Spark Caused Bushfire
In our bush, fires are largely a summer visitation. Many fires have been started by people trying to burn a break and then…
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