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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 109

Soldiers May Train As Fire-fighters

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday. -- The Minister for Home Security (Mr. Lazzarini) is proposing that large numbers of soldiers should be stationed…

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Fire in Park

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 3

Telephone messages from as far away as Bankstown, North. Sydney, and Ryde were received by Lidcombe Fire Brigade on Sunday night,…

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Fire At Granville

The Sun · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 5

Valuable machinery was destroyed when a fire burnt out the engineering shon of Murphy Bros., in East-street,…

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Keep This Fire Stoked

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 6

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Keep This Fire Stoked

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Mystery Fire Sweeps Through Metal Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 3

A FIRE which broke out at the Press Metal Works, East Street, Granville, early today, partly gutted the building and severely damaged…

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Mystery Fire Sweeps Through Metal Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 3

A FIRE which broke out at the Press Metal Works, East Street, Granville, early today, partly gutted the building and severely damaged…

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Mystery Fire Sweeps Through Metal Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 3

A FIRE which broke out at the Press Metal Works, East Street, Granville, early today, partly gutted the building and severely damaged…

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Mystery Fire Sweeps Through Metal Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 3

A FIRE which broke out at the Press Metal Works, East Street, Granville, early today, partly gutted the building and severely damaged…

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Mystery Fire Sweeps Through Metal Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 3

A FIRE which broke out at the Press Metal Works, East Street, Granville, early today, partly gutted the building and severely damaged…

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Fire Near Kogarah Bay

The Propeller · Thursday 21 May 1942 · page 6

Smoke and fumes from burnt rubber spread for miles around kogarah Bay and adjoining localities last Monday when many old tyres…

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Two Killed in Fire Redfern House Destroyed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 May 1942 · page 5

A man and a woman were burned to death when a small weatherboard cottage in Chelsea Street, Redfern, was destroyed…

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Severe Damage Caused by Fire to Manly Catholic Church

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 21 May 1942 · page 5

Mary Immaculate Church, Manly, was seriously damaged by fire last week. The fire started when flames of…

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French Fire On R.A.F. Planes LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 21 May 1942 · page 1

Vichy claims officially that anti-aircraft guns in French West Africa have forced down two British planes…

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Masseuse Now Fire Heroine

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 May 1942 · page 2

LONDON.-- Patricia Dewing always had a little girl's love of fire engines with bright red pumps and clanging bells. She…

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40,000 Fire Bombs On Mannheim

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 May 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--The devastating R.A.F. attack on Mannheim, German river port, on Tuesday night, was one of the heaviest yet made on a German town…

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Germans Retreat in Pall of Smoke Villages Blaze As Russians Fight To Recapture Kharkov

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 May 1942 · page 1

"The battle for Kharkov is like a great catherine-wheel of death roaring round the dusty Ukraine," says the Moscow correspondent of the Daily Express…

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Farm Work Under Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 May 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.). -- A farmer, his wife, and a woman tractor driver have been decorated for bravery in continuing to work at a farm on the…

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