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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1928

2,408 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 121

Lorry on Fire Saved by Fire Brigade

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 7

A Chevrolet I-ton motor Lorry, belonging to Mr. Joseph Gunningham, of Ingle-burn, caught fire on Friday night, at the Cross Roads, near Glenfield…

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House Burned Blaze at Kellyville Defective Chimney Pipe

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 6

After lighting a fire under a copper at her parents' homo at Wright 's-road, Kellyville, on July 30, Elsie Aboud went to the orchard to gather mandarines…

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Tooth's Brewery Play Fire Brigade

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 2

The following players will represent Tooth and Co. Ltd against Fire Brigade to-morrow on Double Bay Park: play to begin at 3 o'clock:--…

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Shop Desteoyed. Fire at Newtown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 12

A lock-up shop at 00 Enmore-road, Enmore, was destroyed, and the two adjoining buildings were slightly damaged, by a fire which broke out shortly after 9.30 last night…

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Car in Line of Fire

Evening News · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 1

This car, in which Coffey was driving when he he was chased, has a bullet hole in the back of the back from the which were exchanged between the fugitive and his pursuers…

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May Blaze the Balkans Assassin's Bullet Croat Leader Victim Big Upheaval Feared London

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 1

IT is reported from Belgrade that Stefan Raditch. Croat peasam leader, and one of the moat picturesque figures in Balkan politics, is…

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Motor Car Damaged by Fire. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 12

A new motor car, belonging to the Grafton Ambulance, which was purchased about [?] month ago, was badly damaged by fire. The car waa parked in a shed at the rear of a…

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Red Fury 100,000 Wiped Out Fire and Sword Shanghai

The Sun · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 1

A ghastly story of a Red uprising in the inland Chinese Province of Hunan is told by the Rev. C. H. Derr, of Hengchow (Hunan). Over 100,000 persons fell victims to the Red fury…

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Fire Officer Honored

Evening News · Saturday 11 August 1928 · page 5

The staff and friends of the [?] Fire Brigade bid [?]well to Mr Frances J. Smith. who has been the [?] for the past 12 years. He was [?]…

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House Destroyed by Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 August 1928 · page 16

DELEGATE, Friday.—The house occupied by Mrs. E. Walsh, jun., and its contents were destroyed by fire last night. The occupants were away at the time…

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Cabbages Used as Fire Extinguisher

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 August 1928 · page 6

When a lorry bound for Covent Garden, London, burst into flames, only the resourcefulness of the driver saved it from utter…

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Damping the Fire of a Chase

The Sun · Sunday 12 August 1928 · page 17

After the fierce heat of the chase of a real live hare. Mascot dogs enjoy the cold douche of the hoses, although it does make them shut their jaws tightly…

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Fire Engines to Set Own Traffic Signals ?

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 August 1928 · page 14

An automatic signalling device recently installed in Leeds, Eng., works so well that it bus been decided to make the installation permanent. In future…

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George-st. Fire

Evening News · Monday 13 August 1928 · page 4

A fire which broke out in a rubbish box at the Civil service Stores. George street, City, early to-day, was extinguished by automatic sprinklers before…

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Petrol Pump on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 August 1928 · page 13

Soon after midnight of Saturday a petrol pump at Luon's garage, Taverner's Hill, Parramatta-road, Petersnam, i[?]nited while a motor cycle was taking in petrol. The cycle…

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Troops Called to Fight Raging Forest Fires London

The Sun · Monday 13 August 1928 · page 1

The Geneva correspondent of "The Times" telegraphs that troops have been despatched to fight forest fires near Aix-les-Bains, where the British…

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Fire in City Save by Sprinklers

The Sun · Monday 13 August 1928 · page 6

A fire, which started in some rubbish on the third floor at the new Civil Service Co-operative Stores, George-street, shortly after 3 a.m. to-day, was…

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Entrapped. Boarders' Perilous Experience. South Brisbane Fire. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 August 1928 · page 11

Fourteen persons bad an exciting experience at an early hour this morning when the Osborne boarding establishment io South Brisbane caught fire…

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Pulled Out Man From Burning House Tar Boils Over Woolloomooloo Fire

The Sun · Monday 13 August 1928 · page 9

Despite the fact that the kitchen was rapidly becoming a raging inferno and there was little hope of putting the…

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Early Morning Fire City Store Damaged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 August 1928 · page 12

Fire broke out in a truck used for gathering rubbish in the packing department of the Civil Service Stores early yesterday morning. The night-watchman. W. H. Hudson, beard the…

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