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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 109

Raid Hint No. 15 Organise Now To Fight Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 10

NEIGHBORS should co-operate and organise their own fire service to deal with fire bombs. These parties have proved successful all over…

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Raid Hint No. 15 Organise Now To Fight Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 10

NEIGHBORS should co-operate and organise their own fire service to deal with fire bombs. These parties have proved successful all over…

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Raid Hint No. 15 Organise Now To Fight Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 10

NEIGHBORS should co-operate and organise their own fire service to deal with fire bombs. These parties have proved successful all over…

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Raid Hint No. 15 Organise Now To Fight Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 10

NEIGHBORS should co-operate and organise their own fire service to deal with fire bombs. These parties have proved successful all over…

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Caves House Saved Bushfire Danger Lessens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 8

After fighting all Tuesday night and yesterday, 500 men, including firemen, militia trainees, police, and civilians, were able to…

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Fire Brigade Termed Putrid

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday.--"The efficiency of the Brisbane Fire Brigade is putrid, and I dread an air raid," said the secretary of the…

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Fire Brigade Termed Putrid

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday.--"The efficiency of the Brisbane Fire Brigade is putrid, and I dread an air raid," said the secretary of the…

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Fire Brigade Termed Putrid

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday.--"The efficiency of the Brisbane Fire Brigade is putrid, and I dread an air raid," said the secretary of the…

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"Black" Ban on Fire Officers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thursday.--A mass meeting of Brisbane firemen tonight declared "black" two brigade officers. The meeting declared these officers…

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Firemen Refuse To Attend Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.--When a fire brigade officer whose suspension had been demanded by the A.W.U., climbed on to a…

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Firemen Refuse To Attend Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 3
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BRISBANE, Saturday.--When a fire brigade officer whose suspension had been demanded by the A.W.U., climbed on to a…

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Firemen Refuse To Attend Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.--When a fire brigade officer whose suspension had been demanded by the A.W.U., climbed on to a…

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Firemen Refuse To Attend Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.--When a fire brigade officer whose suspension had been demanded by the A.W.U., climbed on to a…

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Fire Officers Not for Suspension

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA, Saturday.--"Three men have lost their lives and an inquest into the affair is pending, and until then I don't think it would be…

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Fire Officers Not for Suspension

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA, Saturday.--"Three men have lost their lives and an inquest into the affair is pending, and until then I don't think it would be…

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Adolf-hermann and Musso Playing with Fire

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 11

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How to Fight Fire-Bomb

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1942 · page 7

Sand Fireman drops sandbag over incendiary bomb. This helps lo delay action and confine fire…

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Suspensions left Fire station empty

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 January 1942 · page 4

BRISBANE, Saturday.--Suspension of 23 firemen left Brisbane fire headquarters without fire-fighting personnel today…

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Sirens ban slows up fire engines

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 January 1942 · page 6

Sydney firemen claim that fire engines have to slow up on their way to city fires as a result of N.E.S. regulations forbidding the use of sirens…

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