Merrylands Fire Brigade
Merrylands branch of the Communist Party has asked Holroyd Council to request that a full-time resident fireman be appointed to Merrylands Fire Station…
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Fires in Fairfield Good Saves by Brigade
Fairfield Fire Brigade was kept busy last week-end quelling outbreaks in various bush and grass areas in the municipality…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Menace at Mortdale
Numerous letters were received at the last meeting of Hurstville Council from residents asking that notices be served on owners of adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Causes Hold-up
A fire which burnt through the signal cable on the railway box near Warwick Farm last Saturday afternoon caused a temporary hold-up with the trains, as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Bexley's Fires. Praise for Firemen and Volunteers
"It was only because of the prompt and efficient action of local firemen that nearby homes were not also destroyed," said Alderman McGrath at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Copper Set Fire to Dress
WITH her clothing ablaze, Mrs. Lesley Burcham, 21, ran screaming from the laundry of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman's Clothes on Fire. Two Rescuers Burnt
Mrs. Lesley Bureham, 21, who lives in Avenue Road, Mosman, was 'verely burned about the lower part of the body and legs when her clothes caught fire while she was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in Crop Good Work by Volunteers
PORTION of a standing crop—180 acres out of a 400-acre oaddock—and 300 bags of grain, of a total value of £500, were destroyed by a fire which broke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Destroys British Planes. London, Feb. 7. (A.A.P.)
Eight aeroplanes and five aero engines were destroyed by fire at a civil aerodrome at Romford, Essex…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bushfires
"TRAINING QUEEN" G.H.M. (New Mollyan)—We are having dreadful weather up here Hot dry and dusty The temperature was 110-degrees on Thursday the hottest day this…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bushfire Prevention. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Concerning the origin of bushfires, here is a cause actually witnessed by my walking parties on two official club walks in the spring of last year. Travelling east, over the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight Cottages Endangered. Bush Fires Continue
The local Fire Brigade is still maintaining its fine record in the fight against bush fires. Even a most serious outbreak in Yathong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Bushfire Near Wagga. 4,000 Acres Burnt Out. WAGGA
Twenty bushfire brigades, and many volunteer firefighters, including a squad of police, to-night fought a fire in valuable grass and timber country south-east of Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Blaze on Island 14 Flee From Flames
Three times a fire broke out in Dangar House, Dangar Island, Hawkesbury River, during last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Actor Hurt in Movie Fire
IN THIS FIRE at Camden yesterday Fred Macdonald, actor, who was the original Dave, and George Kenyon, special effects technician, were injured while scenes were being shot for the film "Dad Rudd, M.P." The "property" fire-engine,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Dad" and "Dave" Victims in Fire
Fred Macdonald, the original "Dave" of "Dad and Dave," was injured, and Bert Bailey ("Dad") had his famous beard singed in an accident at Camden…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Menaces Colliery Shaft Wollongong
Fearing that a bushfire might sweep onto the air-shaft of the Mount Kembla Colliery, at the back of the mountain range, a call was sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Traps 25 Belgian Miners Brussels
Fire trapped 25 miners at Monceaufontaine colliery, one of the deepest pits in Marchienne-au-Pont, after an explosion of firedamp…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cripple Saved in Fire Wellington (N.z.)
Firemen in Christchurch, returning from a fire early to-day, saw the flames and smoke of another fire…
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