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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 76

R.a.f. Bombs Start Fires in Burma

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.-- Royal Air Force bombers raided the Japanese-occupied port of Akyab in Burma, and several nearby targets, on…

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R.a.f. Bombs Start Fires in Burma

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.-- Royal Air Force bombers raided the Japanese-occupied port of Akyab in Burma, and several nearby targets, on…

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Block City Fire Guard Proposed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 1

A NEW fire prevention service, based on the block system, is being prepared by the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. Heffron)…

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Block City Fire Guard Proposed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 1

A NEW fire prevention service, based on the block system, is being prepared by the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. Heffron)…

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Block System For Fire Spotting A.R.P. Change to Save Manpower

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 7

Plans for the establishment of a block system of air-raid fire prevention were announced last night by the Minister for National Emergency Services (Mr. Heffron)…

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Protecting City From Raid Fires

Truth · Sunday 10 January 1943 · page 17

A SPECIAL committee, would be appointed to decide the final form of the new N.E.S. fire prevention system in Sydney, said the…

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Triple Murder Mystery Open Finding in Fire Deaths

Truth · Sunday 10 January 1943 · page 14

"MURDER by a person or persons unknown." So, in part, ran the finding of Acting-Coroner Ziesing in the Adelaide Coroner's Court at the conclusion of an inquest on Horace Lavis Heysed and Alan Gordon Davies, whose battered bodies, with that of elderly…

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400 Die In Tragic Slight Club Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 2

SMOKE POURING from the Coconut Grove during the dramatic Boston night club fire, which resulted in the death of more than 400 men and women. Among notable personalities killed was Buck Jones, cowboy film star…

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400 Die In Tragic Night Club Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 2

SMOKE POURING from the Coconut Grove during the dramatic Boston night club fire, which resulted in the death of more than 400 men and women. Among notable personalities killed was Buck Jones, cowboy film star…

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400 Die In Tragic Night Club Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 2

SMOKE POURING from the Coconut Grove during the dramatic Boston night club fire, which resulted in the death of more than 400 men and women. Among notable personalities killed was Buck Jones, cowboy film star…

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400 Die In Tragic Night Club Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 2

SMOKE POURING from the Coconut Grove during the dramatic Boston night club fire, which resulted in the death of more than 400 men and women. Among notable personalities killed was Buck Jones, cowboy film star…

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400 Die In Tragic Night Club Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 2

SMOKE POURING from the Coconut Grove daring the dramatic Boston night club fire, which resulted in the death of more than 400 men and women. Among notable personalities kilted was Buck Jones, cowboy film star…

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Big Fires Started in Bizerta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Jan. 10 (A.A.P.).— Bizerta, in Tunisia, has been twice heavily attacked by Allied planes, which scored direct hits…

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Essen Set On Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.-- Essen, centre of the great Krupps armament works in northwestern Germany, was blasted…

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Essen Set On Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.-- Essen, centre of the great Krupps armament works in northwestern Germany, was blasted…

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Six Die in Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 6

LONDON, Jan. 10 (A.A.P.).—Six persons were killed and 100 injured in a bowling alley explosion and fire in Chicago on Friday night…

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Essen Set On Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 3

LONDON. Monday.-- Essen, centre of the great Krupps armament works in northwestern Germany, was blasted…

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Essen Set On Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.-- Essen, centre of the great Krupps armament works in northwestern Germany, was blasted…

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Essen Set On Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.-- Essen, centre of the great Krupps armament works in northwestern Germany, was blasted…

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Child Burned in Backyard Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 5

JOHN GRAHAM BEARD, aged two and a half years, was severely burned on the body, arms and legs this morning while he and two other…

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