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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1938

1,967 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 99

Panic in City Fire Many Women Rescued Crackers Start a Store Blaze Smoke Damage

The Sun · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 1

Scores of men, women and children became panic-stricken to-day when a fire broke out among the fireworks on a counter at the premises of G. J. Coles and Co. Ltd., Pitt and King-streets to-day…

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Fire Brigade Criticised

The Sun · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 9

Sutherland Council last night decided to inform the Premier (Mr. Stevens) that Cronulla Fire Brigade had refused to attend at a fire at…

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Offensive Behaviour Dancing Round [?]fire

The Biz · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 5

At Liverpool Police Court on Monday, Robert Ross, Tom Mitchell Woodward, and John Robert Jones were charged with offensive behaviour on May 15, at…

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Fire Brigade Footballers Auckland

The Sun · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 48

The Auckland Rugby Union has favorably received a proposal that a Sydney Fire Brigade team be invited to Auckland in August…

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Shire Fire Boundaries. Brigade Demands Guarantees

The Propeller · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 10

"Recently when a widow's home at Miranda was threatened by nearby bush fires the Cronulla fire brigade was notified, but refused to attend…

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Fire Brigades Win Midweek Union Match

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 27

New South Wales Fire Brigades beat Sydney Teachers' College 14-9 at University Oval yesterday. It was the only match played in the…

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Fire Scenes

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 7

SCENES DURING COLES'S FIRE.--Top Left: A man assists one of the salesgirls along the awning to the ladder. Right: One of the distressed girls being comforted by a companion. Bottom: 15,000 people, blocked Pitt and King Streets in order to get a glimpse of the fire…

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Fled From Fire

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 2

GIRL employees of G. J. Coles, Ltd., who joined in the stampede from the store in King and Pitt Sts…

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Farmers Under Fire

The Land · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 14

AN illuminating example of the attitude of certain members of our Federal legislature towards the primary industries was provided by a skirmish in the House of Representatives this week. A Victorian…

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Cigarette Causes Big City Panic 500 Flee Chain Store Blaze

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 2

WHEN a man innocently flicked the ash from a cigarette in the main city store of G. J. Coles & Co., Ltd., yesterday, he started a fire that: --…

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Bag Snatcher Fires at Pursuer. Chase in Petersham

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 14

A man who was being pursued by a tram conductor in Petersham last night turned and, drawing a revolver, fired a shot. Conductor Mayne saw a man grab a woman…

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Panic in City Shop. Fireworks Blaze. Five Hospital Cases. Cigarette Blamed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 13

A cigarette end, flicked on to a stack of crackers at the Pitt Street store of G. J. Coles and Co., Ltd., yesterday afternoon, started…

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Dramatic Rescues in City Store Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 14

Police and civilians helping women through the first floor windows of G. J. Coles and Co. Ltd.'s store in Pitt Street, near King Street, city, yesterday, during a fire which originated at the fireworks counter on the ground floor…

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Capture of Suchow. Bitter Fight. Many Fires in City. Battle Extending. SHANGHAI, May 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 13

Tbe Japanese claim to have completely occupied Suchow, at the junction of the Tientsin-Pukow and Lunghai railways, and to have sent…

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Huge Crowd Watches Fire in City Store — Great Britain's Air Mission to the United States

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 16

Copies of pictures by "Sydney Morning Herald" photographers may be purchased from the Art Gallery at the "Herald" Office. Scale of charges may be obtained on application…

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Frantic Crowd Flees City Fire Girls Rescued From 50ft. Leap to Death Many Hurt, Collapse In Fume-Filled Building

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 1

TWO girls, watched by 15,000 people, stood on a ledge 50 feet above Pitt Street during a fire yesterday, and threatened to jump. Firemen brought them down by extension…

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Fire Bricks!

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 3

WITNESS to Mr. Sutherland S.M., at Redfern Police Court, yesterday: "I got the…

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Fire Engine and Car Collide

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A FIRE ENGINE and a car collided at the corner of Loftus and Bridge Streets early last night. Both vehicles suffered slight…

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Bullets At Fire Scatters Crowd West Wyalong

The Sun · Sunday 22 May 1938 · page 11

Fire early to-day destroyed a weatherboard cottage occupied by Mr. H. T. Breasley and his family. At the height of the blaze between…

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