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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1941

1,760 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 88

Fire-Fighters Of The R.A.F. In Action

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 16

ASBESTOS SUITS enable R.A.F. fire-fighters to get right up to the blaze. This man is dousing a burning plane with a special foam chemical in a test…

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Fire-Fighters Of The R.A.F. In Action

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 16

ASBESTOS SUITS enable R.A.F. fire-fighters to get right up to the blaze. This man is dousing a burning plane with a special foam chemical in a test…

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Fire-Fighters Of The R.A.F. In Action

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 16

ASBESTOS SUITS enable R.A.F. fire-fighters to get right up to the blaze. This man is dousing a burning plane with a special foam chemical in a test…

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London's Inferno on Night of German Blitz — Bomb and Fire Damage Pictures by Clipper Mail

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 10

Officers from Sydney who are included in the latest A.I.F. casualty list…

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Fire Bomb Detectors

The Sun · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 6

Electrical devices for detecting the presence of incendiary bombs, at costs varying from a few shillings for small properties to several…

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Woman Burned In Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 2

MRS. E. CALVERT, a cook at Macquarie House, Macquarie Street, received burns to the face and aims when she attempted to extinguish…

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Woman Burned In Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 2

MRS. E. CALVERT, a cook at Macquarie House, Macquarie Street, received burns to the face and arms when she attempted to extinguish…

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Iron Blamed For Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 9

SLIGHT damage to stock was caused by a fire in a frock shop, occupied by Mrs. Margaret Thompson, in New South Head Road, Double Bay, last…

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Iron Blamed For Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 9

SLIGHT damage to stock was caused by a fire in a frock shop, occupied by Mrs. Margaret Thompson, in New South Head Road. Double Bay, last…

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Iron Blamed For Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 9

SLIGHT damage to stock was caused by a fire in a frock shop, occupied by Mrs. Margaret Thompson, in New South Head Road, Double Bay, last…

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Stocking Hunt After Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 5

SALESGIRL Kay Crossley yesterday tried to find a second undamaged stocking among the 100,000 pairs damaged in Monday night's £30,000 fire in the reserved stock store of Buckingham's, Ltd., Oxford Street…

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Woman Burned In Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 2

MRS. E. CALVERT, a cook at Macquarie House, Macquarie Street, received burns to the face and arms when she attempted to extinguish…

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Woman Burned In Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 2

MRS. E. CALVERT, a cook at Macquarie House, Macquarie Street, received burns to the face and arms when she attempted to extinguish…

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Iron Blamed For Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 9

SLIGHT damage to stock was caused by a fire in a frock shop, occupied by Mrs. Margaret Thompson, in New South Head Road. Double Bay, last…

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"Conscription of Stay-at-homes" Editor Draws Labor Fire

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 June 1941 · page 3

VIGOROUS view on "all-in" war effort set out in May number of Victorian Government's hospital magazine, drew the fire of Melbourne's Labor leaders. There may be a move to discipline returned-soldier…

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Big Blaze In Rumanian Port LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 8 June 1941 · page 4

A large fire caused great damage to the harbor and dockyards at Constanta, the Rumanian port in the Black Sea, according to an…

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Keep the Home Fires Burning Praises Women Lorry Drivers

The Sun · Sunday 8 June 1941 · page 25

"I WAS a little bit sceptical at first about those women lorry driving recruits, but they have dumbfounded me. They are handling the lorries beyond realisation."…

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Guns Blaze in the Darkness

The Sun · Monday 9 June 1941 · page 3

"STAR SHELLS, FIRE!" High-angle guns light up the target for the heavy guns in a practice night action by an Australian warship in home waters…

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Fire At Lapstone

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 June 1941 · page 9

A FIRE in a linen room at Lapstone Hotel this morning was quickly subdued by Penrith and Springwood brigades. The cause of…

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Fire At Lapstone

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 June 1941 · page 9

A FIRE in a linen room at Lapstone Hotel this morning was quickly subdued by Penrith and Springwood brigades. The cause of…

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