Sydney Precaution Fire-fighters to Deal With Bombs SYDNEY
It has been revealed that nearly 100,000 five-fighters have been trained to deal with bombs in Sydney…
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Fires & bushfires, 1941
184 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 10
London Fire Bomb Precaution--
A London bus conductor is seen receiving bags of sand which will be carried in the vehicle as part of the precautions against fire bombs dropped in air raids…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New York Fire Officers in London for Air Raid Experience
Key members of the New York City Fire Department have gone to London lo gain first-hand experience of fire-fighting under air-raid condition. In this picture New York Battalion Chief Wedemeyer screen with girls of the British Auxiliary Fire Service at London Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Coal Miners on the Job Increase Daily Output Do A.R.P. and Fire Fighting Work
The British miner says that Great. Britain is going to win the war, if coal coal production will do it. The Nazi propaganda of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dickens Dreaded Fire
Charles Dickens was wonderfully quick about things little and big. He had a peculiar dread of fire. "Get a brick or two knocked out of the wall"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plucky Girls Heroes of Fire Blitz Bank Was Saved
A remarkable story of the courage and endurance of an office fire-fighting party of eight men and seven women, who saved a bank building in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Italians Fooled in Saudi Arabia Burning,Waste Gases Were Mistaken For Fires SYDNEY
Two Americans who reached Sydney to-day told how burning waste gases led the Italians to believe that they had made an effective raid on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hail and Fire I[?]ce Mr. cosh's Report
Mr. A.E. Cosh writes to the "Times" At the last meeting of the [?] District council of the [?] and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Fighters of Britain's Air Force
—Every British air station has its squad of specially trained pre-fighters. Their quickness to act and the ability to act correctly in an emergency may well be the means of saving lives if a plane crashes. Asbestos suits enable these Royal Air Force fire-fighters to approach close to blazing machines. In this picture a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£7,000 Damage Fire in P.D.S. Store SYDNEY
A fire broke out early this morning in the bulk store of the Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society, at Alexandria…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plucky Girls Heroes of Fire Blitz Bank Was Saved
A remarkable story of the courage and endurance of an office fire-fighting party of eight men and seven women, who saved a -bank building in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Shop Girls Fight Fire Bombs
Girls at a Wembley, London, store have formed their own fire brigade to deal with incendiary bombs from German raiders. The girls are seen making their way to the roof of the store…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"One Huge Blaze" Targets at Benghazi LONDON
Benghazi, where the target was left "one huge blase," was one of the main objectives of a heavy air offensive described in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire As Weapon
The fires started by German incendiary bombs are an instance of man's adaptation of ancient weapons. Primitive man, fighting the beasts of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Wool Scouring Works Sydney
Damage estimated at more than £2500 was done by a fire at Nepean wool scouring works, Emu Plains, on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Churchills New Tanks Formidable Weapon Devastating Fire LONDON
"Churchill" is the name chosen for a new type of heavy infantry tank now being mass produced in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Guarding Britain's Cornfields Farm Workers Will Fight Nazi Fire Bombs
With 12,500,000 acres under the plough this spring—3,750,000 acres more, than in 1939—Britain's agricultural leaders are planning how to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire-raising Bombs Near Civic Block During A.r.p. Demonstration
The devastating effects of incendiary and oil bombs were demonstrated at the rear of the Council Chambers on Monday night to an audience representing wartime organisations and public institutions…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Guarding Britain's Cornfields How Farmworkers Will Fight Nazi Fire, Bombs
With 12,500,000 acres under the plough this spring—3¼ millions more than in 1939—Britain's ag-ricultural leaders are planning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Shop Girls Fight Fire Bombs
Girls at a Wembley, London, store have formed their own fire brigade to deal with incendiary bombs from German raiders. The girls are seen here making their way to the root of the store during a practice turn-out…
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