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Fires & bushfires, 1945

1,715 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 86

Fire Menace Warning By Baddeley

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 October 1945 · page 2

Bushfire threat to food production in New South Wales is more serious than for many years…

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Acute Fire Risk Faces Mountains Settlements

The Sun · Saturday 27 October 1945 · page 2

Bushfires might wipe out Glenbrook and other Blue Mountain settlements because water was lacking said Blue Mountains County Council president (Mr. A. M. Hodgson) today. The water famine at…

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Fire Threat to Food Production Baddeley Makes Appeal For Care

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 October 1945 · page 6

BUSHFIRE threat fo food production in New South Wales is more serious than for many years…

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Fire Threat to Food Production Baddeley Makes Appeal For Care

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 October 1945 · page 6

BUSHFIRE threat to food production in New South Wales is more serious than for many years. "WE cannot afford to lose one field…

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Wives light fires in unhappy homes

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 28 October 1945 · page 44

NEW YORK, Sat. -- Domestic troubles cause women to become arsonists, Mr. Richard Steinmetz, chief…

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Want new fire brigades board

The Sun · Sunday 28 October 1945 · page 3

Immediate abolition of the existing Board of Fire Commissioners was sought by a deputation of firemen and officers…

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Pipes on roadside but no water to fight bushfires

The Sun · Sunday 28 October 1945 · page 3

PIPES for water have been lying on the side of the roads at Glenbrook and other Blue Mountains centres for five years, and the people there will have no water to fight…

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Italians cause costly bushfires BATHURST

The Sun · Sunday 28 October 1945 · page 3

Before Mr. Justice Herron and a jury at Bathurst Circuit Court. Arthur George Collins, landowner of Cowra, was awarded £21010-…

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Showgirl Tells of Fire Stampede Dressing-Room Commotion Coroner Probes Blaze at Tivoli

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 5

ATTRACTIVE showgirl Dorothy Jean Saltan told in the Coroner's Court today of the panic and stampede when a fire broke out in a Tivoli Theatre…

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Showgirl Tells of Fire Stampede Dressing-Room Commotion Coroner Probes Blaze at Tivoli

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 5

ATTRACTIVE showgirl Dorothy Jean Saltan told in the Coroner's Court today of the panic and stampede when fire broke out in a Tivoli Theatre…

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Showgirl Tells of Fire Stampede Dressing -Room Commotion Coroner Probes Blaze at Tivoli

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 5

ATTRACTIVE showgirl Dorothy Jean Saltan told in the Coroner's Court today of the panic and stampede when a fire broke out in a Tivoli Theatre…

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Personality and Drama at Tivoli Fire Inquest Death Blaze in Dressing Room; Hose Too Short

The Sun · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 1

The fire hose on the second floor of the Tivoli Theatre was too short to reach the dressing-room, where three showgirls were burned -- two fatally on September 1…

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Survivor Not at Tivoli Fire Probe

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 2

Because the life of Diana Hartt (19), only survivor of the tragedy, would be endangered, instructions were given today that she would not be required to attend the City Coroner's Court as a witness at the Tivoli Fire…

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Indonesians Fire on British Fighting Breaks Out In Sourabaya Nationalists Resent Order

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 6

FIGHTING has broken out between British and Indonesian forces in Sourabaya, largest naval base in the Netherlands East Indies…

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Indonesians Fire on British Fighting Breaks Out In Sourabaya Nationalists Resent Order

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 6

FIGHTING has broken out between British and Indonesian forces in Sourabaya, largest naval base in the Netherlands East Indies…

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Indonesians Fire on British Fighting Breaks Out In Sourabaya Nationalists Resent Order

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 6

FIGHTING has broken out between British and Indonesian forces in Sourabaya, largest naval base in the Netherlands East Indies…

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Indonesians Fire on British Reports Of Clash At Sourabaya Nationalists Resent Order

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 6

FIGHTING is reported to hove broken out between British and Indonesian forces in Sourabaya, largest naval base in the Netherlands East Indies…

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Indonesians Fire on British Troops Sourabaya Clash Reported Resentment at Order to Disarm

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 5

FIGHTING is reported to have broken out between British and Indonesian forces in Sourabaya, largest naval base in the Netherlands East Indies…

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Tivoli Fire Victim Not at Inquiry 'Would Endanger Her Life' Stagehand Tells of Rescue Bid

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 5

BECAUSE her life would be endangered, Diana Hartt (19), only survivor of the fire tragedy at the Tivoli Thegtre on September 1. need…

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Strong Wind Fans Many Bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 October 1945 · page 5

Strong westerly winds yesterday, which reached a velocity of 58 m.p.h., fanned 20 bushfires in Sydney suburbs. Fire brigades from Gordon, Lane…

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