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Fires & bushfires, 1925

2,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 69 of 104

Trapped by Fire Men & Women Leap From-second Floor Caught-in a Shawl Dublin, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 7 September 1925 · page 1

FORTY PEOPLE were trapped in a burning building in Mary-street. Twenty-seven of them, men and women, jumped from the…

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Fire Warning City Council Acts

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 1

"I don't think the precautions against fire to-day are sufficient," said Air. Mackay in advocating the need for appointing an officer to give fire…

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Outbreak of Fire. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 10

A serious fire occurred in Bayliss-street last night, in buildings occupied by the National Bank of Australia, Outram's tobacconist and billiard rooms, and the South Wagga post and…

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Exciting Rescues. at a Dublin Fire. London, Sept. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 9

Sensational rescues characterised a fire in business premises in Mary-street, Dublin, in which 40 people were trapped. Twenty[?]seven men and women jumped from the second…

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Sensational Fire Many Injured Girls Have Remarkable Escapes Dublin, September 6

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 5

Sensational rescues were witnessed in connection with a fire which broke out in some business premises in Mary Street, in which 40 people were…

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Steamer Ayrshire. Fire in Hold. Burning for Ten Days. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 9

The Scottish Shire Line steamer Ayrshire arrived at Port Adelaide on Saturday with a fire, which was first noticed ten days previously, burning in No. 5 hold…

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Chasing After a Fire Couldn't Find Street Crow's Nest Farce

Evening News · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 9

NAREMBURN Progress Association complained to Willoughby Council last night concerning the alleged delay of the Crow's…

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Marrickville Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 September 1925 · page 14

Both Petersham and Marrickville brigades turned out to a fire in Brompton-street, Marrickville, at about half-past 9 o'clock last night. A spark from a furnace had set fire…

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Fire in the City

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 September 1925 · page 9

Although dense volumes of smoke were issuing from a three-story building in Kent Street, near King Street, early this morning, the firemen for a…

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City Fire. Kent[?]street Warehouse

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 September 1925 · page 13

Clouds of smoke issuing from [?] windows of the four-story building of the Bullivant (Aust.) Co., Ltd., ship chand[?]ers, at 331-333 Kent-street, attracted the notice of…

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Fire at Factory Melbourne

Evening News · Wednesday 9 September 1925 · page 11

Shortly before 9.30 last night, the brigade turned out to a fire in an iron building in Cardigan-street, Carlton, used as a factory by A. Goldman…

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Horse or H.P. Wanted Fire Brigade Farce Mittagong

Evening News · Wednesday 9 September 1925 · page 9

AT the annual reunion of members of the [?] Brigade it was stated that the fire-fighting [?] was [?] for [?]…

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Petersham Railway Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 September 1925 · page 10

A spark set fire to portion of a stack of 6000 bags of cement in Petersham railway goods yards yesterday. The Petersham and Leichhardt brigades extinguished the blaze…

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Factory on Fire Brisbane

The Sun · Thursday 10 September 1925 · page 20

Foggitt, Jones large bacon factory at Oxley, just outside Brisbane, is reported to be ablaze and burning fiercely…

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Bacon Factory Fire Brisbane

Evening News · Thursday 10 September 1925 · page 7

Foggitt Jones and Co.'s bacon factory at Oxley was partly destroyed by fire to-day. Between £30,000 and £40,000 worth of stock was stored in…

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Girl's Clothes in Flames Spark From Wood Fire Critically Hurt

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 September 1925 · page 1

AN unsuspected spark--a puff of wind, and a burst of flame--and Phyllis Freeman, 15, rushed from her home, Hotham Road,…

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Destructive Fires Fire at Dunoon

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 4

As outbreak of Hunoon, near Lismore (N.S.W.). during the week-end, destroyed a boarding-house occupied by Mr. Phillpots, a daird[?]ing [?] conducted by…

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Blaze at Coogee

Evening News · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 3

Fire [?]damaged the home of Stanley Creamer, in Byron-street. Coogee. eariy to-day. The collage which is of six rooms it owned by…

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Big Factory Fire Queensland Blaze [?] Wire Thought Responsible Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 7

Foggitt, Jones, and Company's factory at Oxley was partly destroyed by fire this morning. No estimate of the damage could be…

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The Ayrshire Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 3

The Scottish Shire liner Ayrshire is due here early next week. It was reported yesterday that in order to stop the fire which broke out in No. 5 hold it was necessary for the…

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