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50 years ago - Department Store in Parkes gets hit with two fires in one year

Howards Department Store (later renamed Mates Department Store) had a rough year in 1973, with two fires causing considerable damage....

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The Land of Fire and Flood: Twenty Years Ago, 2003

For this week’s blog we are taking a quick trip into the Museum’s Library to see what was making the headlines in “Fire News”, the...

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The Hampton Court Hotel fire of 1992

30 years ago, on 27 December 1992 at 6:39pm fire crews were called to the Hampton Court Hotel at Kings Cross on Bayswater Road. The hotel...

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Ship alight - 1972 Newcastle dockyard fire

On 11 November 1972 at 10:53am, Newcastle fire station received a direct line telephone call from the nearby state dockyard. A suction...

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Code Red - Looking back at the Big W Liverpool fire of 1972

50 years ago today, on 11 October 1972, a blaze broke out in the Woolworths Family Shopping Centre in Liverpool. The structure was...

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In Commemoration – Looking Back 100 years Ago to William Brown

Beginnings Turning back the clock, we begin in the 19th century with William Hamilton Brown born in Darlinghurst in 1897. Living most of...

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The Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011

The following is an extract from the June 2011 edition of Fire News. The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō...

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10 Years Since the Harvey Norman Super Store Fire

It was 10 years ago that a fire broke out in Harvey Norman in the Museum’s neighbouring suburb of Jamisontown. The Fire and Rescue NSW...

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100 Years Ago: Kirribilli Point Woolstore Fire, 14 December 1921

This week we’re winding the clock back 100 years to the great wool store fire at Kirribilli Point, 1921. Wool stores were extremely...

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