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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1936

2,399 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 120

Calls to Three Fires

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 8

REELING an unexpected heat in the kitchen of her home in George Street, Greenwich, last night, Mrs. Armstrong turned around and…

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In Brief Increased Fire Equipment

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 13

Hornsby Shire Council was advised at last meeting that the Sydney Fire District has been extended Areas now included will take in Mount Coolah and…

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Fire in Adelaide. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 21

[?] which broke out in the chemist's shop of Mr. Michacl Brady, of Allenby Gar[?] early this morning, caused damage estimated at £650. The brilliance of the…

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Fire Brigades' Cricket

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 21

George Street West, after being behind on the first innings, recorded an exciting one run win yesterday in the final of the Fire Brigades' cricket premiership…

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Rugby Union Fire Brigades Challenge Manly

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 21

FIRE BRIGADES Rugby Union team, which beat the Parramatta first grade team on Saturday, has now issued a challenge…

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Charged with Setting Fire to Motor Car

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 4

Reginald Arthur Amory was committed for trial by the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clarke) at Burwood yesterday, on a…

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Rugby Union Parramatta Club's Trial Matches Hard and Rugged Game with Fire Brigade

The Biz · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 9

Played at Granville Show Ground on Saturday afternoon, the practice match! between Parramatta first grade and eh? City Fire Brigade teams proved interet…

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Fire Disaster Big Death-Roll Feared Canton Blaze Canton

The Sun · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 1

It is feared that many perished in a fire which gutted hundreds of buildings and raged for five hours. The death-roll at present cannot be…

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Fires in Suburbs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 7

Mascot fire brigade was called yesterday afternoon to a fire which occurred in a bedroom at the residence of Harold Price, Coward-street, Mascot. The bedding was well alight,…

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Fire Fairies

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 11

AS I sit and watch the fire. Which is blazing high, I can see the fire fairies All go dancing by…

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Plane Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 7

WHEN THE W.A.S.P. airliner Narromine was about to leave Dubbo for Mascot early yesterday, the carburettor of the…

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POP Fat in the Fire

The Sun · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 8

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Beds on Fire Caused By Thieves

The Sun · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 8

Investigations following a fire which was discovered in the home of Mr. Harold Price, in coward- street, Mascot, yesterday, revealed…

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Planes in Fire and Nose-dive

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 1

A W.A.S.P. aeroplane caught fire at Dubbo yesterday, and a privately owned machine had its propeller broken when it nose-dived…

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Police Use Fire Ladder

The Sun · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 1

Police broke into the Sussex-street store of Walker Reid and Co., with the help of a Fire Brigade…

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The Fire-eaters of the Show

The Sun · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 1

Ison the pygmy (left) scorns the finest Latakia tobacco. He smokes benzine. Another side-show personality, Abdul the Magician, swallows a penny. This has the unique effect of causing him to blow out a cloud of smoke…

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Disastrous Fire in Canton CANTON

Truth · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 16

IT is feared that many perished in a fire which gutted hundreds of buildings and raged for fire boars, early this…

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SOCCER Balloon Tyres, Spares In the Fire Stovies Are Red Hot Handed Punctures, Took the Wind Out of Goodyear

Truth · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 7

BALLOON tyres and spares all went phut with Goodyear yesterday, and when Metters had finished with them in the big Soccer match at Lidcombe, they were scarcely running on the rims…

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Fire in Canton. Many Buildings Gutted. LONDON, April 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 8

A message from Canton states it is feared, that many persons perished in a fire which gutted hundreds of buildings and raged for [?] hours early to-day…

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Benzine Blaze Burns Whole Family

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--All three members of a family at Wangi were severely burned by blazing benzine tonight. The kitchen of the home was…

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