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Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 109

Four Fires at Auburn Boy Arrested

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 5

A boy, aged 16, was arrested in a pawnshop yesterday. Later he was charged with having maliciously started fires at…

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Fire Hoax Fiend

The Biz · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 6

The hoax fiend is again, having a game with the fire brigades. Recently he called out the Merrylands Brigade, and a few days later Cabramatta firemen were…

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House Destroyed by Fire

Nepean Times · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 5

A four-roomed weatherboard house in Sydney Street, St. Marys, owned by Isabella Margaret McKay, of Missenden Road, Camperdown, was totally…

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How to Control Fire Bombs

The Sun · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 5

At 8 tonight, at Jacka Park Harbord, Fire Brigade experts will instruct the public how to control oil and Incendiary bombs…

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Irish Railways Fire As They Go

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 7

DUBLIN.--A train took two hours 20 minutes to travel less than seven miles on the line from Dublin to Dunlaoghaire…

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Irish Railways Fire As They Go

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 7

DUBLIN.--A train took two hours 20 minutes to travel less than seven miles on the line from Dublin to Dunlaoghaire…

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Quiet Thoughts: Be As Careful Off Words As You Would Of Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 8

Careful with fire is good advice, we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so…

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Quiet Thoughts Be As Careful Off Words As You Would Of Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 8

Careful with fire Is good advice, we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so…

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Quiet Thoughts: Be As Careful Of Words As You Would Of Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 8

Careful with fire is good advice, we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so…

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Quiet Thought Be As Careful Of Words As You Would Of Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 8

Careful with fire Is good advice, we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so…

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Quiet Thoughts: Be As Careful Of Words As You Would Of Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 8

Careful with fire is good advice, we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so…

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Quiet Thoughts: Be As Careful Of Words As You Would Of Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 8

Careful with fire is good advice, we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so…

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Charred Bodies In Burnt-out Plane

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Thursday.--A search party found the charred bodies of the crew of two and three passengers of the Union plane which crashed into…

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Fire at Cronulla

The Observer · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 1

A fir which started in mysterious circumstances destroyed “Levuka,” Gerrale Street, Cronulla, at 3 a.m. on Sunday morning last…

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Fire Assurance Firms Criticised

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 2

"WHEN you assure your property against fire, it seems that the company does not care whether you have anything to assure or not. You…

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Church Damaged by Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 7

PADSTOW PARK Church of England was partly destroyed by fire last night. It was well alight, when brigades…

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Fire Assurance Firms Criticised

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 2

"WHEN you assure your property against fire, it seems that the company does not care whether you have anything to assure or not. You…

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Church Damaged by Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 8

PADSTOW PARK Church of England was partly destroyed by fire last night. It was well alight when brigades…

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Parliamentary Notes. Fire on Railway Property

The Observer · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 6

Mr. WILLIAMS: I ask the Minister for Transport whether it is a fact that on the 7th December last the “trouble” officer of the Railway Department…

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Fires In Lae Raid MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 16 May 1942 · page 3

The Allied Air Force in a surprise raid on the aerodrome at Lae yesterday, dropped bombs on the runway and started fires,…

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