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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Rescue Attempt Defeated By Fire
AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--Wilfred Cornelius Whitlow, 34, a Second Echelon recruit, was burned to death in his bed this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires Ring Sidney. Residents Driven From Homes. Suburban Outbreaks
Sydney was almost encircled by busliflres yesterday. Fire and smoke drove residents from their homes in Guildford,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fierce Scrub Fire House Destroyed Near Yennora
A disastrous Are occurred in the scrub land to the north-west of Yennora at noon on Wednesday. Until after nightfall fire brigades and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Kerosene Tank Fire. Cause Accidental. NEWCASTLE
The explosion which caused an outbreak of fire in the Commonwealth Oil Refineries, Ltd., power kerosene storage tank at Wickham, Newcastle, on December 16, 1939, was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Oil Fires Avoidable Expert Declares Tank Explosions Can Be Prevented NEWCASTLE
Steps could be taken in future to prevent fires similar to that which followed an explosion at the C.O.R. depot, Wickham, on December 16. William Eros Parsons, analyst and inspector of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ammunition in Peril Fire Sweeps Into Camp Dump
An ammunition dump at Liverpool was threatened by a bushfire to-day when flames reached the grass within the enclosure…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mystery Fire. Vatican Chancellery Damaged. Rome, January 1
The famous and beautiful Palace of the Apostolic Chancellery in Rome was badly damaged together with the adjoining old Church of SS. Lorenzo and Damaso by a…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Thought Father Was in Fire. Bay Dashes, Into Flames
Matthew Thomas McCulloch, aged 9, of Guildford Road, dashed into a bush fire on Sunday, believing his father to be in the thick of the flames. He received…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Detectives' Fire-hunt Firebugs Suspected Of Starting Some Outbreaks
Arson squad detectives have been called to investigate a number of yesterday's bushfires. Experts believe firebugs might have been responsible for some of them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thought Father Was in Fire. Buy Dashes Into Flames
Matthew Thomas McCulloch, aged 9, of Guildford Road, dashed into a bush fire on Sunday, believing his father to be in the thick of the flames. He received…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Destroys Bavarian Steelworks. Suggestion of Sabotage. PARIS, Jan. 24. (A.A.P.)
It is reported that for 36 hours a fire raged in the Max Huete steelworks in Bavaria and destroyed the rolling mills and furnaces. The damage is estimated to tun into millions…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bushfire at Carlingford — Damaged House at Dee Why — Scenes at Melbourne's Second A.i.f. March
Copies of all pictures taken bv 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 14 →Deliberately Caused Brigade Opinion Of Some Bushfires
Five Brigade officers arc convinced that some of the bushfires of the past few days have been caused either by firebugs or hooligans, and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Sydney Surrounded by 112 Bushfires
HOT WORK at St. Ives yesterday when firemen thrust their way into the heart of burning scrub to fight one of the 112 bushfires which surrounded Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfire Destroys Railway Trucks
LITHGOW, Wednesday.--A bushfire set alight to two trucks in a goods train near Bogan's Creek today. The trucks and their contents were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Sweep Shire
The local brigade has had its time fully occupied during the week with numerous fires over all the Shire; it has even been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Refugees
THESE CRANES, fleeing from bushfires, found refuge yesterday at Cooper Park, Bellevue Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfires Spread. City Fireman Killed Racing to Blaze
A Fire Brigade officer was killed and five firemen weie injured when a fire engine racing to a bushfire overturned in Longueville yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fires Sweep Many Suburbs
Firemen from practically every suburban station yesterday, attended scrub, grass and bushfires…
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