Fire-fighter Killed. Homes Menaced. Bushfires on Coast
A volunteer fire-fighter was killed, two houses were destroyed, and other properties were saved only by the desperate efforts of firemen and…
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Killed Fighting Fire
A man was killed, a woman slightly burned, a house destroyed, many homes were damaged and hundreds of…
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SHED containing £150 worth of furniture and other effects, owned by Mr. H. B. Sevier, Suffolk Avenue, Collaroy, going up in flames yesterday. METHODIST CHURCH at Newrybar, North Coast, after the cyclone which partly wrecked the town last Friday night…
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The Paris radio announced to-night that a fire at the Max Huete steelworks in Bavaria destroyed rolling- mills and furnaces. Work will be…
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Blinded by dense clouds of black smoke, about 60 people, most of them children, fled for their lives when a scrub fire swept on their homes in McCready-street, Guildford, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Air Mail Pictures From Europe—house Destroyed by Grass Fire—north Australian Floods
Copies of all pictures taken by the "Sydney Morning Herald" staff photographers may be purchased from the Art Gallery at the "Herald" Office. The scale of charges may be obtained on application…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire in Italian Liner. Lifeboats Are Found. Fear of Big Deathroll Removed. London, Jan. 23. (A.A.P.)
Two of the lifeboats missing from the Italian liner Orazio (11,669 tons), which caught fire after an explosion in the Mediterranean on Monday have been…
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A large area of grass caught alight near Warwick Farm bridge last Saturday morning. Liverpool Fire Brigade attended and extinguished the blaze…
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The Water Board in a letter to Nepean Shire Council stated that water may be taken from the Board's hydrants by the bush fire brigades, subject to conditions…
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Cabramatta Fire Brigade attended a bush fire in Liverpool Road, Bonnyrigg on Sunday. Messrs. Dean's. Staples' and Braddon's poultry farms were…
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A bus was driving along Terminus Street, Liverpool, last Saturday morning, when suddenly smoke began pouring from underneath the carriage. Liverpool…
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When a fire broke out to-day in No. 3 boiler-house at Bunnerong Power Station, four brigades, under Deputy Chief Officer Beare, attended. The…
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A fire broke out in cottage in Sixth Street, Grantile, this morning. Five brigades from Granville and Parrmatta put it out, but the cottage was badly damaged…
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On Tuesday, after a bush fire broke out between Newbridge Road and Milperra, on the property owned by Mr. Hudson, behind the village of Hammondville,…
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A fire, which started in Campbell Hill Road, Old Guildford, about noon on Monday, swept through to Ferndale St., four streets away. The homes of Mrs. J…
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Although many fires occurred during the week in the St. George and Sutherland districts, firemen were able to save property, with the…
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A fire occurred near the railway [?] between Cabramatta and Warwick Farron Tuesday night. at 10 o'clock. Cabramatta Fire Brigade prevented any…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Chinese Burnt As Fire Rages
A Chinese market gardener, Chung Lum, 62, was badly burned while fighting bushfires, which yesterday razed…
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