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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1941

363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 19

Blondie's Family Playing With Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 August 1941 · page 5

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Two Fires at Cardiff: Shop & Theatre

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 3

The Star Theatre at Cardiff was almost totally destroyed, and a small unoccupied shop about a quarter of a mile away was totally destroyed, in…

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Theatre Almost Destroyed Two Fires at Cardiff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 1

The Star Picture Theatre at Cardiff was almost totally destroyed by fire which began shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. At 3 a.m. only the front wall, which…

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Fire-watcher As Well As Surgeon

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 3

Dr. F. W. D. Collier, of Newcastle, who is now helping to heal the victims of the "blitz" in London does his share of fire…

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Cardiff Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1941 · page 3

Looking from the operator's box towards the screen of the Star Picture Theatre, Cardiff, after the early morning blaze yesterday…

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Australians Under Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 August 1941 · page 1

Australian troops advance on Beirut, a key point in the Syrian campaign, under fire from Vichy artillery. The wireless mast at Beirut is in the background…

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Grass Fire at Toronto

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 August 1941 · page 9

Toronto Fire Brigade received a call to a grass fire along the Lake foreshores off Renwick-street, Toronto, yesterday morning. It was quickly extinguished…

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Nudists Can Fight Fires

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 August 1941 · page 5

LONDON, July 2 (Air Mail).—An attendant wearing a cap and knee-high fireman's boots—and nothing else—has demonstrated a stirrup—pump…

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Fire-bomb Incident in Shanghai

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 August 1941 · page 3

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—A huge incendiary bomb yesterday set fire to the building housing Mr. Wang Ching-wei's newspaper the "Central China Daily News,"…

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Want £200,000 to Fight Bomb Fires

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 August 1941 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The State Government has asked the Federal authorities for £200,000 to enable it to bring the fire fighting services of the…

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Guns Blaze in French Riots

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 August 1941 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)—Paris newspapers reveal that police fired on demonstrators yesterday at St. Denis, a town four miles north of Paris. SOME of the demonstrators were wounded and 16 were arrested…

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This Morning's Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 August 1941 · page 1

Scenes at this morning's fire at the store room and factory of David Cohen and Co. in Newcastle railway goods-yard…

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Store—factory Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 August 1941 · page 1

Fire which broke out in David Cohen's storeroom in the Railway goodsyard early this morning gutted half the building and caused damage to stock estimated at…

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Midnight Fire Caused £1000 Damage

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 August 1941 · page 4

Damage estimated at more than £1000 was caused by a fire which broke out at midnight last night In a storage shed owned and occupied by David…

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Fires at Cardiff Work of Fire-bug Suspected

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 August 1941 · page 3

Newcastle police and fire brigade officials suspect that a firebug is operating in the Cardiff district…

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Plenty of Smoke, Little Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 August 1941 · page 2

Thick smoke belching in a black cloud over Waratah. Mayfield and Lambton yesterday caused excitement. It looked like an oil fire but it was not. Tar…

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Two More Fires at Cardiff Four Within a Fortnight

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 August 1941 · page 1

Two more fires have occurred at Cardiff. At 11.50 last night the Cardiff Fire Brigade was called to a fire in the…

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Fear Sabotage in Terrific New York Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 August 1941 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.).— A terrific explosion touched off a roaring fire which destroyed a 1000ft. pier on the Brooklyn waterfront…

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R.a.f. Planes Fire Sicilian Port

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 August 1941 · page 1

LONDON. Monday (A.A.P.).— Harbor facilities at Syracuse (Sicily) were left blazing after an attack by planes of the Fleet Air Arm on Saturday…

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Waterfront Blaze in New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 August 1941 · page 3

NEW YORK. Aug. 19.—Seven people were killed, and 60 were injured in a fire which destroyed a 1000ft. pier on the Brooklyn waterfront, causing damage…

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