Women Learn How to Fight Fires
Fifty members of the Women's Australian National Services attended a lecture and demonstration of fire-fighting and rescue methods at Fire Brigade Headquarters last…
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Fire at Bellevue Park
Shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday a fire broke out at Bellevue Park estate, Werrington, and completely destroyed the house…
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Five brigades under Officer Rodney made a good save early this morning when fire broke out on the shirt-making premises of Clarke's, 315 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt…
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So far this summer the fire brigade has attended almost 2,000 fewer fires in the city and suburbs than in the corresponding period of last summer…
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Discussion took place at the last meetings of Rockdale and Hurstville Councils concerning the payment oi large amounts each year by councils…
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MEMBER OF W.A.N.S. using a portable extinguisher to quench a fire, started for demonstration purposes, at Fire Headquarters last night. Officers of the Fire Brigades are training some of the W.A.N.S. in fire-fighting methods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scenes As A.I.F.'s Malaya Contingent Left Sydney — Australians at Derna — Women Learn Fire-fighting
A humo[?]rist provided facial contortions to keep the fun going as these A.I.F. troops were ferried out to a troopship at Sydney recently. The contingent disembarked at Singapore…
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HOUSEWIVES and women occupied in their own homes willing to join the Women's Auxiliary Fire Brigade Corps through the W.A.N.S. are requested to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£250,000 Fire in Danish Factory
LONDON, Thursday. -- Denmark's largest optical instrument factory, which was working exclusively for Germany, has been burned out says a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Liner Damaged by Fire Serious Mishap at Wellington
Serious damage by fire and water, the full extent of which will not be known till a survey has been made, was caused…
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CHRISTMAS may not be topical again until next December, but the latest Department of Information film, called "CHRISTMAS…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Foiling the nazi fire raisers A Story of the Most Brilliant Fire-Fighting Service in the world. By L. Ashwell Wood
THE story of the heroic work done by the fire-fighting services during the "blitz" raids on London will go down in history as one of supreme gallantry and devotion to duty. Again and again the Nazi bombers have tried to raise fires by the dropping of thousands of incendiary and oil…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire-Bomb Showers South Wales Towns Raided, Heavy Damage London, Friday (A.A.P.)
Fire-bombs were showered last night by German raiders on towns in south Wales. The first of the raiding planes flew over the towns for s[?]me hours, dropping flares…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- A bushfire sweeping across the track held up country trains in Gippsland late today…
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WAGGA, Saturday. -- Two boys, aged 16 and 15, were committed for trial on an arson charge at a coronial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boys Charged With Setting Fire JUNEE
TWO boys, John James Edward Short, 15, and William John Hands, 16, were committed for trial by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires at Junee. Boys Committed for Trial. JUNEE
Two boys who were alleged to have admitted setting several buildings on fire were committed for trial by the coroner, Mr. J. A. Harris, after he had…
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Baulkham Hills Council last week decided to co-operate with Drummoyne Council in urging an amendment to the Fire Board's Act, to relieve councils…
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The courage and presence of mind of her brother, Edward, aged 7, who pulled her from a cot in which the bed clothes were blazing, saved the life…
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Drummoyne Council is requesting co-operation in an endeavour to have councils' contributions to the Fire Board discontinued…
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