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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 73 of 109

Blaze in Basement of Dental Hospital

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 7

FIREMEN used gas masks in extinguishing a fire in a basement storeroom at the Sydney Dental Hospital, corner of Elizabeth and…

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Backyard Fire

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 2

About 11.15 a.m. on Monday morning, a spark from an incinerator at the rear of O. B. Reye's pharmacy, Merrylands, set alight to some cases. The flames were…

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New Fire Chief Expected Soon

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 5

Promotion of Mr. W. H. Beare, Acting-Fire Brigades Chief in N.S.W., to Chief Officer, is expected to be announced…

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New Fire Chief Expected Soon

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 5

Promotion of Mr. W. H. Beare, Acting-Fire Brigades Chief in N.S.W., to Chief Officer, is expected to be announced…

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New Fire Chief Expected Soon

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 5

Promotion of Mr. W. H. Beare, Acting-Fire Brigades Chief in N.S.W., to Chief Officer, is expected to be announced…

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New Fire Chief Expected Soon

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 5

Promotion of Mr. W. H. Beare, Acting-Fire Brigades Chief in N.S.W., to Chief Officer, is expected to be announced…

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Huge Fire at Swedish Port

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--Fire which swept the big Marma timberyards at Soderhamn (Sweden) last night caused £250,000 damage…

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Took The Fire To Them WELLINGTON

The Sun · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 3

A Christchurch truck driver, who discovered in the centre of a city thoroughfare that his three-ton load…

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Bush Fire Risk

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 7

THE Bush Fires Advisory Committee and the Bush Fires (Emergency) Committee are helping local shire councils to organise more bush fire brigades in…

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Backyard Fire

The Biz · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 5

About 11.16 a.m.on. Monday morning. A spark From an in cinerator at the rear of O. B. Reye's pharmacy, Merrylands, set alight to some'cases. The flames,were…

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Women Injured in Bedroom Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 7

An aged woman and her daughter were burned last night trying to beat out a fire in their flat in Bradley Avenue, Bellevue…

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Fire Chief on Sick Leave

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 9

Mr. C. D. A. Richardson, Chief Officer of the New South Wales Fire Brigade, who has reached the age of 60, has been granted three months' sick leave…

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Russians Fire Warsaw LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 1

Fully 24 large fires, many near German headquarters, and 30 smaller fires were caused in Warsaw by a large…

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Pathetic Terror 0f Parents At Casino Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 15

CASINO, Thursday. -- Sensing danger to their loved ones, frantic parents ran wild-eyed round the blazing factory in…

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Pathetic Terror Of Parents At Casino Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 2

CASINO, Thursday. -- Sensing danger to their loved ones, frantic parents ran wild-eyed round the blazing factory in…

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Pathetic Terror Of Parents At Casino Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 15

CASINO, Thursday. -- Sensing danger to their loved ones, frantic parents ran wild-eyed round the blazing factory in…

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Pathetic Terror Of Parents At Casino fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 15

CASINO, Thursday. -- Sensing danger to their loved ones, frantic parents ran wild-eyed round the blazing factory in…

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Four Boys Die in Fire May Have Been Smoking

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 5

Four boys wete burned to death in a fire which destroyed the fibre section of Pidcock Bros., fibro-plaster works, at Casino,…

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R.A.F. Lights Huge Fires In Rhine Industrial City

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--R.A.F. bombers caused huge fires in Karlsruhe, Upper Rhine industrial centre, last night. It was the second major R.A.F…

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Karlsruhe Became a "Blazing Hell" Moonlight Made Bombers' Job Easy Enormous Fires in Dock Areas

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.-- A pilot who participated in Wednesday night's raid on Karlsruhe, Upper Rhine, said that the city after the bombs fell, was a "blazing hell."…

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