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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1944

2,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 109

20 homes destroyed in Vic. bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 January 1944 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sat.--A bushfire destroyed part of the township of Clunes, northern Victoria,…

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Fires In Victoria Flare-up

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Fires in Wangaratta district flared up again today after a…

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Stock Perish in Flames Bushfires Rage in Victoria

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—More than 40 houses, a public hospital, and a hotel were destroyed at the week-end in one of the most…

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Bushfires Still Burning In Vic

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Bushfires are burning in many parts of Victoria. A fire at Creswick, which destroyed a hospital and a number of houses on…

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Victorian Bushfires Leave Trail Of RUIN

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Bushfires that raged through four Victorian districts on Saturday left trails of desolation. THE northern end of Clunes was devastated by a fire that broke…

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Victorian Bushfires Leave Trail of Ruin

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Bushfires that raged through four Victorian districts on Saturday left trails of desolation. THE northern end of Clunes was devastated by a fire that broke…

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Victorian Bushfires Leave Trail of Ruin

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Bushfires that raged through four Victorian districts on Saturday left trails of desolation. THE northern end of Clunes was devastated by a fire that broke…

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Victorian Bushfires Leave Trail of Ruin

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Bushfires that raged through four Victorian districts on Saturday left trails of desolation. THE northern end of Clunes was devastated by a fire that broke…

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New Fires Feared by Victorians

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Because of the huge areas covered by bush fires in Victoria and the inadequate number of…

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New Fires Feared by Victorians

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Because of the huge areas covered by bush fires in Victoria and the inadequate number of…

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New Fires Feared by Victorians

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Because of the huge areas covered by bush fires in Victoria and the inadequate number of…

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New Fires Feared by Victorians

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Because of the huge areas covered by bush fires in Victoria and the inadequate number of…

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Saboteurs Fire Factory

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Norwegian Radio reports that saboteurs have destroyed by fire an electric lamp factory at Arendl…

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Saboteurs Fire Factory

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Norwegiar Radio reports that saboteurs have destroyed by fire an electric lamp factory at Arendl…

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Saboteurs Fire Factory

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Norwegian Radio reports that saboteurs have destroyed by fire an electric lamp factory at Arendl. I…

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Big Fire Guard at Town

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Beechworth is crowded with firefighters standing by in case the…

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Ten Brigades to Factory Fire

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 3

Ten brigades were rushed to the fibro-board factory of E. J. Woolfe and Co., in Collins-street, Alexandria, today, when the…

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"Everybody On Fire" In Tram Crash

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday. "Everybody was on fire," said a conductress describing in the…

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Bushfires Die Down Relief Work in Victoria

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.— Fanned by fresh winds, some of the bushfires which raged in many areas of the State during…

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30 Houses Destroyed In Bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Thirty homes were destroyed by bushfires in the Wangaratta area…

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