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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 109

Moscow Ready For Fire Raids

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1942 · page 3

MOSCOW, Friday.--The military council of the Moscow Command today ordered an allround tightening up of Moscow's…

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Rifle Fire for N.E.S. TEST Blanks to he Used to Repel "Raid"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1942 · page 8

The Volunteer Defence Corps would use blank ammunition in rifles to repel "a landing of paratroops" at Woolloomooloo in…

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Midnight Fire Spread Rapidly

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 2

A restaurant was damaged, stocks of patent medicines destroyed and a quantity of stationery damaged, when a fire…

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Midnight Fire Spread Rapidly

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 8

A restaurant was damaged, stocks of patent medicines destroyed and a quantity of stationery damaged, when a fire…

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Fire in German Warehouses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 6

LONDON, May 17. (A.A.P.).—A Moscow report says that in a large fire, which broke out at a goods station at Stuttgart (Germany), several…

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Midnight Fire Spread Rapidly

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 8

A restaurant was damaged, stocks of patent medicines destroyed and a quantity of stationery damaged, when a fire…

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Midnight Fire Spread Rapidly

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 8

A restaurant was damaged, stocks of patent medicines destroyed and a quantity of stationery damaged, when a fire…

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Midnight Fire Spread Rapidly

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 8

A restaurant was damaged, stocks of patent medicines destroyed and a quantity of stationery damaged, when a fire…

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U.S. Plane On Fire, Crashes

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Nine members of the crew of a U.S. Army plane escaped with minor injuries when it crashed near…

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U.S. Plane On Fire. Crashes

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Nine members of the crew of a U.S. Army plane escaped with minor injuries when it crashed near…

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U.S. Plane On Fire. Crashes

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Nine members of the crew of a U.S. Army plane escaped with minor injuries when it crashed near…

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U.S. Plane On Fire, Crashes

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Nine members of the crew of a U.S. Army plane escaped with minor injuries when it crashed near…

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Injured Fighting Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 3

FREDERICK BARRINGHAM (67), MacAuley Street, Leichhardt, who received frightful burns when he at- tempted to extinguish a blaze…

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Injured Fighting Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 3

FREDERICK BARRINGHAM (67), MacAuley Street, Leichhardt, who received frightful burns when he attempted to extinguish a blaze…

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Injured Fighting Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 3

FREDERICK BARRINGHAM (67), MacAuley Street, Leichhardt, who received frightful burns when he attempted to extinguish a blaze…

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Injured Fighting Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 3

FREDERICK BARRINGHAM (67), A MacAuley Street, Leichhardt, who received frightful burns when he attempted to extinguish a blaze…

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Injured Fighting Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 3

FREDERICK BARRINGHAM (67), MacAuley Street, Leichhardt, who received frightful burns when he attempted to extinguish a blaze…

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Fire in Car Subdued

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 4

WHILE Constable Long tried to subdue a fire in a motor car in Henderson Road, Alexandria, with an extinguisher last night, another…

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Fire in Car Subdued

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 4

WHILE Constable Long tried to subdue a fire in a motor car in Henderson Road, Alexandria, with an extinguisher last night, another…

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Man Seriously Burned Clothes on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 6

After blasing oil had set fire to his overalls. Frederick Barringham. 67. of Macaulay Street, Leichhardt. ran along Nelson…

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