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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

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Stopped Fighting Fire To Look for His Teeth

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 5

In Kalamazoo, Michigan, they will not have a fireman with false, teeth. This was revealed when Joseph…

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China Cease-Fire Ordered

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

CHUNGKING, Sunday: Government spokesman announced that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek…

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£20,000 Fire in Adelaide

Northern Star · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sunday. — After a big fight by brigades from several stations firemen at the end of an hour's effort gained control of a…

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Fire Put Out When Right Among Bombs

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday: After a six-hour desperate battle, 200 airmen, naval ratings and police stopped a raging grass fire from exploding dumps of 5001b. RAAF bombs at Darra, 10…

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Reichstag Fire Echo

Northern Star · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (AAP).—[?] letter to President Hindenburg from one of Roehms' assistants implicates Goering and…

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Reichstag Fire "Goering and Goebbels Were Involved"

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: A letter to Hindenburg from one of the assistants implicates Goering and…

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£3000 Fire at Dubbo

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

DUBBO, Tuesday.—A fire today caused £3000 damage when it consumed the premises of Robertson's Rubber Works at Dubbo and…

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Heath Fire at Broadwater

Northern Star · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

BROADWATER, Thursday. — More than 40 fire fighters under the direction of Const. Lonsdale had a day-long fight to-day with…

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Chemicals Fire at Railway

Northern Star · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 4

At 8.55 a.m. on Saturday, Lismore Fire Brigade was summoned to the Railway goods yard at South Lismore to extinguish a large…

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Woman Falls From Root During Fire

Northern Star · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 4

While watching a fire from an adjoining roof at the Hotel Gollan last night, a woman fell through an opening between…

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Local and General [?] From Roof During Fire

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 2

[?] watching a fire from an [?]ing roof at the Hotel Gollan on Sunday night, a woman fell through an opening between two…

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Morotai Troops Fire Questions at Forde

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

MOROTAI, Wednesday. Almost unannounced, the Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) arrived here late…

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Bid to Quell Old Fire

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday: Firemen worked partly underground today in attempts to quell one of the city's oldest fires. Shifts of…

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Seat of Fire Located

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Firemen tonight located the seat of the fire which they had been fighting below ground for nearly two days at…

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Fires Rage Near Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Fires which have been raging throughout the National Park since yesterday afternoon destroyed…

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Sydney Fire

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Damage estimated at several thousands of pounds was caused by a fire which broke out in the City…

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Plane Crash Into Hospital Kills Three Brigades Check Fire: Pilot Bailed Out

Northern Star · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Three people were killed and five others injured when a Royal Navy Firefly 'plane crashed into a small courtyard at Lewisham Hospital this moaning. More than 100 patients in a ward near She scene of the tragedy had narrow escapes…

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£50 000 Fire in Sydney

Tweed Daily · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A fire early today a short distance from the children's hospital at Camperdown caused £50,000 damage. It…

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40 Killed in U.s. Fire

Northern Star · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 1

CLEVELAND, Sunday (AAP). — At least 40 persons were killed in a fire which swept a one-storey residence for aged men and women in…

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£30,000 City Fire Stores Destroyed

Northern Star · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—About £30,000 worth of damage was done to the store room of the International Harvester Company early this morning when a fire gutted the premises…

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