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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1945

1,715 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 86

1at 3-YR-OLD Fire Chat Outstays P. Galahad

The Sun · Saturday 23 June 1945 · page 8

Fire Chat (10 to 1) cleared away from Prince Galahad over the last furlong of the first…

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Grateful owner backs Fire Chat for police

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 June 1945 · page 14

Members of a Sydney police patrol car were good winners over the success of Fire Chat in the first division of yesterday's Three Year Old Handicap at Randwick…

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Big plans for Fire Chat: first the Metropolitan, then (they hope) Melbourne Cup

The Sun · Sunday 24 June 1945 · page 3

BIG plans have been made for Fire Chat, winner of the first Three-Year-Old Handicap at Randwick yesterday…

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Fireman's Risk at Acetylene Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 12

A FIREMAN risked his life to turn off the tap of an acetylene gas cylinder which caught fire at the works of O'Shea and Holland…

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Several Hurt In City Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 2

Several persons were injured in a fire which started when a petrol tank exploded at the commercial printing section of…

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Parramatta Jail Workshop Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 10

A report of a fire in the tailors' workshop at Parramatta Jail stated: "An electric iron left switched on by a prisoner is believed to have caused a…

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Bales of Cotton on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 3

Ten bales of cotton were burnt of badly damaged by fire in the yard at the works of Davies Coop (N.S.W.). Ltd.. cotton spinners. Marrickville,…

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Big Fires Rage in Balikpapan Port Japs Retract Report Of Landing By Allies

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 1

TOKIO Radio claims that Allied attempts to land at Balikpapan, chief oil and shipping centre in east Borneo, have been foiled. The Radio previously said that…

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Blaze in Brisbane Street Building

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 5

Huge volumes of smoke from a fire which occurred in the former "Labor Daily" office in Brisbane Street. off Oxford Street, Sydney, yesterday. Forty firemen from six city stations fought the blaze…

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Heavy Damage in City Printing House Fire Printing House Fire In City

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 7

A fire yesterday afternoon caused damage estimated at several thousand pounds at the Brisbane Street, City, premises of Consolidated Press, Ltd…

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Rifle Fire Quells Mob in Cologne

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 2

PARIS, Monday. -- Allied military police had to fire a volley over the heads of a mob demonstrating in the rubble-strewn…

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City Printery on Fire Workers' Escape

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 4

Sixty employees, including 12 girls, had to flee froma fire that swept through three floors of a building occupied as a…

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Seamen Overcome By Fumes In Fire On Ship

The Sun · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 3

At Hospital: One of the 12 seamen overcome by fumes in the hold of a ship in port today. The fumes came from burning installations…

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School Fire Appreciated

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 3

Children at the Surry Hills Day School, corner Cooper and…

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29 Collapse During Ship's Fire Gas Victims From Ship Crew, Firemen Saved By Iron Lungs, Oxygen

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 5

Twenty-nine men were overcome by carbon monoxide gos from o fire on o ship in Sydney Harbor yesterday. They all recovered within a few hours after…

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Fire in Empty Hold of Ship

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 6

A FIRE occurred in the hold of a ship at Balmain Wharf at 2.45 this afternoon. Five fire-engines were rushed to the…

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Fire Chat's Good Moorefield Trial Hard To Beat in 3-Year-Old Aquatic Fit for Engagement in Final Event of the Day

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 28

FIRE CHAT, to run in the Three-Year-Old Handicap at Moorefiefd next Saturday, and Aquatic, expected to go well in the Welter Handicap (second division), were excellent workers on different tracks this morning. They are selected to win their respective races…

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Canberra Cross-Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 9

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- Here are some selections from the winged words of wisdom of our legislators in…

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Fire Chat in Best Sprint

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 14

Fire Chat revealed outstanding prospects for tomorrow's Three-Year-Old Handicap at Moorefield by registering the…

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Seria Oil Fires Change Climate From Our War Correspondent, C. C. Eager

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 1

SERIA, June 25 (delayed).—Of the 21 oil wells which the Japanese set on fire before they fied from Seria, 14 are still…

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