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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1945

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Bushfires, Dust Today

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 6

Warnings of probable bushfires today in the metropolitan and central and southern areas of New South Wales were issued…

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Courts Told of Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 2

Three careless fire lighters who had accidentally caused grass and bush fires were fined in widely - separated police…

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Courts Told of Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 2

Three careless fire lighters who had accidentally caused grass and bash fires were fined in widely - separated police…

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Courts Told of Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 2

Three careless fire lighters who had accidentally caused grass and hush fires .were fined in widely - separated police…

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Liberators Start Fires On Corregidor Island

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 3

U.S. Liberator bombers yesterday made their first attack on Corregidor, island fortress in Manila Bay, western Luzon Island. Corregidor, where the Americans made their last…

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Stop Press Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 20

Firemen are fighting a fierce [?] which broke out on the top floor of a furniture warehouse in parramatta Rd., Camperdown, this…

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Garage Blaze Spreads Furniture Damage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 3

Extensive damage to furniture stacked in the premises of Fred Kilner Ferns and Co., Camperdown, was caused yesterday…

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German City Under Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 2

GERMAN CITY OF BRESLAU (200 miles from Berlin) which is being shelled by Russian forces. This photograph was taken when Breslau was being considered as an alternative capital to the much-bombed Berlin…

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4 Singed, Cellar Fire

The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 3

Firemen donned gas masks to put out a fire among straw in the cellar of the Mansion House Hotel,…

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Fire Call To Hotel Cellar

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 2

When a spark from an electric motor ignited volatile fluid they were using to clean the beer pipes at the Mansion House…

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U.S. Tanks Turn Massed Fire On Germans

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 3

FIRE OF U.S. TANKS massed on a battlefield on the West Front is directed from a vantage point by tank officers riding in a General Sherman tank…

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Huge Bush Blaze Rages in South

Truth · Sunday 28 January 1945 · page 22

TUMUT, Saturday.—A huge bushfire, raging on a 30-mile front near Argalong, 24 miles from Tumut, is threatening the Bago State Forest while thousands of sheep have perished…

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Fireman Don Gas Masks to Fight Blaze

The Sun · Sunday 28 January 1945 · page 5

FIREMEN donned gas masks to put out a fire among straw in the cellar of the Mansion House Hotel,…

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Firefighters exhausted Soldiers Called to Bushfire

The Sun · Sunday 28 January 1945 · page 3

SERVICEMEN have been called to relieve firefighters exhausted in a struggle against a fire at…

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Device to Fire Rifle How Lad Was Shot

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 3

A youth, aged 16, was found shot through the abdomen in the room of a house where he boarded in Wilton Street, Surry…

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Pilot Averts Plane Fire Circles To Use Up Petrol

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 3

While firemen, ambulances, and a doctor waited on the landing ground at Kingsford Smith Airport yesterday a Lockheed…

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Bushfires Near Tumut Under Control After Four Days

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 3

TUMUT, Sunday.—Bushfires which raged on a wide front at Argalong are now under control, after destroying a large area of…

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Bottle Starts Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 6

ALBURY, Monday.—A glass bottle acting as a burning-glass in the hot sun set fire to dry grass in the yard of Mates, Ltd., bulk store to-day…

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Girl's Torso In Fire

The Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.--Charred remains, thought to be those of an animal, probably a dog, thrown…

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Mandalay Between Two Fires

The Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 2

DELHI, Wednesday.--Main threat to the great Jap base at Mandalay (Burma) is a new drive…

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