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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1945

1,715 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 86

Fire damages box factory

The Sun · Sunday 25 February 1945 · page 5

Fire severely damaged a room containing a number of empty packing cases at Walton's box factory, Dixon-street, city, last…

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Youth's Home Worry, Set Fire to Grass

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 February 1945 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sat.--A youth had lit bushfires because of a troubled home life, it was stated in Adelaide Criminal Court today…

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Bush Fire Interlude Short Story by an Australian Author

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 13

I'M drinking en glass of beer and wondering if it will be possible fo order another one before the pub shuts when Darky Stewart flourishes the local newspaper and begins to read out…

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Bush Fire Interlude Short Story by an Australian Author

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 13

I'M drinking a glass of beer and wondering if it will be possible to order another one before the pub shuts when Darky Stewart flourishes the local newspaper and begins to read out…

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Bush Fire Interlude Short Story by an Australian Author

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 13

I'M drinking a glass of beer (and wondering if it will be possible to order another one before the pub shuts when Darky Stewart flourishes the local newspaper and begins to read out…

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Bush Fire Interlude Short Story by an Australian Author

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 13

I'M drinking a glass of beer and wondering if it will be possible to order another one before the pub shuts when Darky Stewart flourishes the local newspaper and begins to read out…

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Bush Fire Interlude Short Story by an Australian Author

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 13

I'M drinking a glass of beer and wondering if if will be possible fo order another one before the pub shuts when Darky Stewart flourishes the local newspaper and begins to read out…

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Bush Fire Interlude Short Story by an Australian Author

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 13

I'M drinking a glass of beer and wondering if it will be possible to order another one before the pub shuts when Darky Stewart flourishes the local newspaper and begins to read out…

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Cowra Freezing Works Razed £10,000 Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 3

Fire razed the freezing works of Lachlan Pty. Ltd., Cowra, to the ground last night, causing damage estimated at £10,000…

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Ship Fire Hero in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 4

First Naval George Cross winner, Lieutenant-Commander J. Hodge, R.N.V.R., has arrived in Australia for service with the…

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Chemicals Alight in Shop Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 3

When firemen turned their hoses on a Are in Weir's pharmacy, Market Street, city, early this morning burning chemicals…

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Beer for Army Lost in Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 5

COWRA, Sunday.--Bulk beef belonging to the military forces was destroyed in a £10,000 fire here tonight…

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Fires Burning In Two Japanese Cities Greatest Raid on Tokio 1800 Planes Swoop In Snowstorm

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday.--U.S. planes today carried out their greatest raid on the Japanese homeland. Sixteen hundred carrier planes and 200…

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Church Fire Charge

The Sun · Tuesday 27 February 1945 · page 2

William George Johns, laborer, 18, charged on remand in the Campsie Court today with maliciously setting fire to the Roman…

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Girls On Roof: Fire Hose Used

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1945 · page 5

Several girls in the Parramatta Industrial School last night climbed on to the roof and refused…

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Red Cross Will Help in Bush Fire Areas

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 6

Red Cross Headquarters has advised that country branches in bush fire areas should get in touch with the local council, intimating that, in…

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By Fire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 8

Damage estimated at nearly £1000 was caused when St. Joachim's Parish Hall, Lidcombe, was destroyed by fire early last Saturday morning…

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Colt Rescued From Fire Named Lucky Escape

The Sun · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 10

Rescued from a fire some months ago a yearling colt in E. Hush's stable has been named Lucky Escape. He has been broken in and…

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Fighting of Fires Under Docks or Piers Success of Floating Monitors in U.s.a

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 2

The fighting of under-dock fires has long been one of the most difficult tasks confronting harbour firemen in the United States, states the "Weekly Underwriter," of New York. It is frequently impossible to fight such fires from the topside. The…

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Tokio's Heart "Burnt Out"

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 4

GUAM, Wednesday.--Two hundred and forty blocks in the heart of Tokio were burned out…

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