More Bushfires. Volunteers Save Cottages. Eight Outbreaks
The Cronulla Fire Brigade, with the aid of volunteer fire-fighters, saved eight cottages from destruction in two bushfires at Caringbah yesterday…
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Bushfires Sweep on Homes
A bushfire at Castlecrag, near Willoughby to-day got so near homes that it scorched clothes hung out…
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A woman collapsed when her home was threatened by a bushfire yesterday in Yathong Rodd,Caringbah…
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Warning phone bells in the homes of bushfire fighters, that summon the fighters to battle with…
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JUNEE, Monday.--Five times in the last 24 hours Junee fire brigade has been called out to fight fires. Late last night the brigade fought…
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LITHGOW, Monday.--Seventy men fought a bushfire for 12 hours until 3 a.m. today at South Bowenfels. About 300 acres were ablaze, and the fire…
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WAGGA, Monday.--At the police court today, Vincent Drinnan, 26, of Kurri Kurri, was charged with having set and left a fire without first…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--A fire which has swept 10,000 acres of forest and grassland near Wodonga is believed to have started from a piece of paper…
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WAGGA, Monday.--At the Police Court to-day Vincent Drinnan. 28, of Kurrl Kurrl, was charged with having set and left a fire without first…
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Police were unable to say yesterday what caused the fire which destroyed Nicholson's music warehouse, in George Street, city, early Sunday morning…
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Junee firemen have answered five calls during the past 24 hours. On two occasions while they were fighting one outbreak, a call to another was received…
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Sydney and suburban fire brigades received 1364 false alarms last year, according to the annual report of the Board of Fire Commissioners to the Chief…
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taneous combustion is believed to have caused a fire which last night destroyed a woolshed at Rokeby, headquarters of the Third Division,…
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Detective-sergeant Gilmour and Detective Hind are trying to ascertain the cause of the Are which gutted the building occupied by Nicholson's Pty. Ltd., music…
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Charged with the careless use of fire, John Agnew and Russell Lyne McKay were each fined 5s at Wallerawang Court…
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Two men stranded last night on Lion Island, at the entrance to Broken Bay, started a bushfire to attract attention on the mainland. In a hired motor-boat they had…
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The office of Wormold Bros., dealers in chemical extinguishers, was burned to-day. The fire was discovered about 8…
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Fire destroyed part of the Hetton Bellbird Coal Company's coal conveyor at Hexham early today…
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For two hours this morning the Katoomba and Leura Fire Brigades, assisted by civilians and police, fought a bushfire in Backhouse Street,…
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Sir,—Last year, bushnres were extensive in Victoria and New South Wales, and hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage was done to property, and, in addition, several…
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