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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1927

2,755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 138

Hat Brigade Engine Starts Blaze Gundagat

The Sun · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 8

A railway train, passing over Gundagai flats, set fire to the common Two 16-year boys, having no other means to extinguish the flames, took…

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Suspicious Fires Two Boys Arrested

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 12

Two boys, raged about nine, were arrested early yesterday in connection with the fire in the Standard Cork Board, and Insulating Company's…

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Engine Blamed for Country Fires Parkes

Evening News · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 8

THE District Coroner concluded his inquiry to-day regarding the [?] which broke out near Alectown West Siding on December 10, and swept a…

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Melbourne Fire. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 12

Damage estimated at several thousands of pounds was caused by a fire which burnt out the two upper floors of a four-storied building occupied by a number of clothing…

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Three Men's Burns in Steamer Blaze Fumes of Sulphur Melbourne

Evening News · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 11

AN outbreak of fire occurred in a hold containing a quantity of sulphur on the steamer Queen Olga at Yarraville yesterday, and three…

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Disastrous Fire at Summer Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 14

THE DAMAGED FLOUR MILLS OF MUNGO SCOTT, LIMITED…

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Fire Engine Decision This Month

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 7

If promises amount to anything, Liverpool municipality should be in possession of a motor fire engine in the near future. Council has been agitating for one of…

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Forest Fires Destruction in Tas. Bridges Swept Away Burnie, Tas

Evening News · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 8

FOLLOWING three weeks of hot weather, which at present seems [?] to continue, serious bush fires have broken out on the West…

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Fatal Fire Old Man's Death LOCKHART

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 7

Michael Duggan, a retired station hand, who had worked for over 40 years on Brockong station, near Lockhart, was burned to death this…

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Big Fire £75,000 Damage Walls Collapse

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 1

The eastern section of Mungo Scott and Company's big flour mill at Summer Hill was destroyed by fire yesterday, the damage…

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Flour Mills. Damage by Fire. Heavy Losses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 11

Damage estimated at between £30,000 and £10,000 was caused by a fire which gutted portion of the flour mills of Mungo Sc[?] Ltd., in Smith-street. Summer Hill, yesterday…

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Fire on Ship. Three Men Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 11

Three men were injured, one seriously, while fighting a fire which ooourred in a hold containing sulphur on the steamer Queen Olga at Williamstown this afternoon. Their names…

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A Living Torch Girl's Clothing on Fire Petrol Iron Explodes

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 4

A girl named Ethel Ricks, aged eighteen years, received terrible burns yesterday (Thursday), when a petrol Iron that she was using…

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Seven Perish Fire in Birmingham Stairway Ablaze London, Thursday. Jan. 13

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 7

A disastrous fire occurred in a small house in Birmingham yesterday, resulting in seven deaths. The house was occupied by Charles…

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Bush-fire

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 12

Why is the harbour hazy, This lazy day? Because the bush is blazing A hundred miles away…

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Bush Fire. Caused by Engine. Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 15

At an inquiry by the District Coroner into the fire which started near Alectown West, on December 10, and burnt out a large number of farms, the Coroner found that the fire was…

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Mercantile Mutual Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 17

All the new shares issued by the Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Ltd, have been applied for, and the premium there on credited to the reserve fund, the reserve…

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Form Lost in Fire!

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 5

IF you had a horse capable of running a good second in the Breeders' Plate at its first start, you would consider yourself a…

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Dog Directs Great Fire Rescue

The World's News · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 2

Beauty, the half-brother of Rin Tin Tia, the famous film police dog, helped to rescue a number of animals from a fire which [?] curred at Mr. Joseph Hamisch's bird and…

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The Suevio. Damaged by Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 19

A fire has occurred in the bunkers of the While Sfar liner Suevic which is bound from Australia to the United Kingdom. A cable message received yesterday by the…

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