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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1940

1,637 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 82

Bombers Fire a Hospital Nurses, Men in Death-trap Red Frightfulness In Finland LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2

Trapped by fire and incinerated, four nurses and 19 wounded Finnish soldiers perished when Russian planes to-day mercilessly bombed a Red Cross hospital on the Karelian Isthmus…

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176 Burned to Death. Japanese Train Smash. Petrol Catches Fire Tokyo, Jan. 29. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 9

One hundred and seventy-six passengers were trapped and burned to death when the suburban train on which they were travelling rammed a…

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Wild Driving in Bushfire Zone 'Scoffed At Warning;' Motorists Slated

The Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 10

Reckless behavior by some motorists in bushfire areas during the week-end was warmly denounced by the secretary of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia, Mr. Clyde Hodgins, to-day…

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Fights Bushfire Alone BULLI

Daily News · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 1

Single-handed, J. G. Cheetham, aged 70, yesterday unsuccessfully tried to save his home at Darke's Forest from…

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Three More Deaths From Heat and Bushfires Volunteers' All-Night Fight To Save Towns, Forest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 1

Three more persons died in New South Wales yesterday as a result of heat and bushfires. This brings the total number of deaths since…

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Bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 4

SUMMER heat-waves have brought bushfires to New South Wales again. Last summer fires caused…

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Home News. Bushfires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 1

Bushfires which swept threugh the Yass district on Sunday and yesterday burnt out thousands of acres, destroyed much fencing, and incinerated many sheep…

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Bush Fire Toll "Preventable," Says Shreeve

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 1

Majority of bush fires are preventable, Cnr. Shreeve told Blacktown Council on Thursday, after Mr. T. D. Mutch, M.L.A., a…

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Take Garden Hose to Bush Fires! Hills Volunteers Plight Fine Work by Local Constable

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 1

Hills district bushfire fighters have no equipment save that which they bring along themselves. One of the men who battled with last…

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Many Fires Still Burning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 14

Many big bushfires are still burning in New South Wales, but most of them are under control. In the Yass district, on the South Coast,…

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Combat Spread of Fires

Construction · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 15

As this is being written there is a pall of smoke rising from the bushfires round the city, and, no doubt, even worse ones are raging further out, and it occurs to one to wonder why more fire-breaks…

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Fires in Control at Last

Daily News · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 3

AFTER days of endless battling, firefighters yesterday gained control of the bushfires in the…

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Started Fires in Rubbish Baskets

Daily News · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 5

Constable Beach said in Central Police Court yesterday that Garnet Bastian, 27, bootmaker, had lit fires early on Sunday morning in…

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Sugarworks Fire

Daily News · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2

Another fire occurred in the Colonial Sugar Refinery's works at Pyrmont, about the same time. After a strenuous fight, firemen…

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Car on Fire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 10

When a motor-car caught fire in Helena-street, Auburn, on Saturday, Angus Arthurson (50), a passenger, of Gears-avenue, Drummoyne, suffered…

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Escape Down Fire Ladder

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 5

Almost overcome by smoke, three people escaped down a fire brigade ladder from a fire in the rear of a Leichhardt butcher's…

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Fire Causes £6,000 Damage

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 9

Damage to the extent of more than £6,000 was caused by a fire which gutted the premises of Brown's Tyre Service in…

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Motorists Drove Over Fire Hoses

Daily News · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2

Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, said last night that he would order a searching investigation into charges of reckless behavior by…

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To Farewell Liverpool Fire Chief

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 6

A public meeting of citizens in Liverpool town hall last night unanimously decided to organise a farewell social and testimonial to Station officer J…

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Careless Motorists In Fire Areas

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2

R.A.C.Q. officials last night criticised the conduct of motorists in bushfire areas. A three-day inspection tour by one…

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