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Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 76

Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 October 1943 · page 6

Police are investigating three fires which broke out at Menzies Private Hotel, Elizabeth Street, City, last night…

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Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 October 1943 · page 7

Police are investigating three fires which broke out at Menzies Private Hotel, Elizabeth Street, City, last night…

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Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 October 1943 · page 6

Police are investigating three fires which broke out at Menzies Private Hotel, Elizabeth Street, City, last night…

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Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 October 1943 · page 6

Police are investigating three fires which broke out at Menzies Private Hotel, Elizabeth Street, City, last night…

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Firebug Starts 3 Fires In Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 October 1943 · page 2

A firebug started three fires early this morning on the first floor of Menzies' Private Hotel, Elizabeth Street, City…

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Power House Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 October 1943 · page 10

Damage estimated at £25,000 was caused by a fire in a store at Bunnerong Power House yesterday morning. Electrical equipment was destroyed…

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Police Seek Fire-bug

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 October 1943 · page 5

Three separate fires which broke out on the first floor of Menzies Private Hotel, Elizabeth Street, late last night were extinguished with little damage…

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Promise to Fire Brigades

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 October 1943 · page 4

MEMBERS of Sydney's fire brigades have received a promise from the Government that their claim for a reduction in working hours from…

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Promise to Fire Brigades

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 October 1943 · page 4

MEMBERS of Sydney's fire brigades have received a promise from the Government that their claim for a reduction in working hours from…

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Fatally Burned Fighting Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday.--A woman, aged 81 years, had her clothing burnt off her when she tried to put out a fire at her home last night…

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Warship Forty Years Building Will Never Fire A Shot

The World's News · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 6

AMONG the countries at war with the Axis is the tiny and turbulent Republic of Nicaragua. She has no navy except a 40-ton…

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Allied Armada Ready to Fire on Rome Nazis Expect New Attack

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.--While Allied aircraft are isolating Rome by raids and tightening the blockade on Western Italy's communications, Spanish newspapers quote Berlin reports that…

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Allied Armada Ready to Fire on Rome Nazis Expect New Attack

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.--While Allied aircraft ore isolating Rome by raids. and tightening the blockade on Western Italy's 'communications, Spanish newspapers quote Berlin reports that…

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Advanced Hospital Under Fire of Jap Guns Men Carried To Safety

The Sun · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 2

Extremely light casualties but many miraculous escapes were experienced during a pitched battle around an advanced dressing - station, six miles north of Finschhafen on Monday…

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Allied Armada Ready to Fire on Rome Nazis Expect New Attack

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.-While Allied aircraft are isolating Rome by raids and tightening the blockade on Western Italy's communications, Spanish newspapers quote Berlin reports that…

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Fire in Wharf Ammunition Store

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 October 1943 · page 4

BRISBANE, Sat.--Firemen had to fight a fire among small arms ammunition and. detonators at a Queensland wharf today. Many bullets exploded,…

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Flying bullets in wharf fire BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 24 October 1943 · page 3

Working among flying bullets from exploding ammunition, firemen at a Queensland port today extinguished a blaze in…

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P.M. heard daughter order 'fire' on raider

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 October 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Sat.--Mr. Churchill heard his daughter, Subaltern Mary Churchill, shout the order "Fire!" when a German raider came over her anti-aircraft station last night…

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88 Die When Oil Snips Catch Fire

The Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday. -- Scenes of horror followed a night collision between two tankers off the Florida coast, in which 88 men were killed…

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Death Of Fire Veteran

The Sun · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 2

Oldest fireman in NSW, Mr. John Francis Ford died today, aged 86. Mr. Ford was born in…

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