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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1945

1,715 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 86

Man Dies After Fighting Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 3

After assisting to put out a fire in a grass paddock near his home yesterday, Charles Edward Stocks, 56 case manufacturer, collapsed and…

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Fire Kills Woman, Grand-daughter

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 1

BOWRAL, Tuesday.--A woman and her granddaughter were burned to death today in a cottage at the corner of Bowral and St. Jude Streets, Bowral. They were Mrs. Ethel Minnie…

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Jockey's Loss In Racing Stable Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 19

with all their belongings destroyed in a fire which gutted the boys' quarters at J. W. Cook's racing stables, Kensington, last night…

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Jockey's Loss In Racing Stable Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 20

With all their belongings destroyed in a fire which gutted the boys quarters at J. W. Cook's racing stables, Kensington, last night…

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Jockey's Loss In Racing Stable Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 19

With all their belongings destroyed in a fire which gutted the boys' quarters at J. W. Cook's racing stables, Kensington, last night,…

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Jockey's Loss In Racing Stable Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 19

With all their belongings destroyed in a fire which gutted the boys' quarters at J. W. Cook's racing stables, Kensington, last night,…

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Jockey's Loss In Racing Stable Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 19

With all their belongings destroyed in a fire which gutted the boys' quarters at J. W. Cook's racing stables. Kensington, last night…

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Fire Destroys Sheep and Crops in N.W.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 3

A grass and bush fire which swept many miles of country between Breeza, Piallaway, and Currabubula, in the…

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Bushfires in N.S.W. Metropolitan Suburbs Menaced

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 3

That the summer has arrived in earnest was demonstrated at the week-end, when a record total of 180 grass fires and bushfires…

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Bush Fire Menace. Sutherland Township Threatened

The Propeller · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 1

The outskirts of Sutherland township were threatened by fire on Saturday last by bush fires which swept thousands of acres of scrub-land between Heathcote…

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Big Cabramatta Blaze Naval Men Help Brigades

The Biz · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 1

Royal Navy men on Saturday, manning two machines, helped to save a dozen homes and poultry farms at Cabramttta. where a fire raged in 2000 tons…

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Arbitration Under Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 2

Seldom has Australia witnessed a more disgraceful display of mob behaviour than the demonstration staged yesterday against Mr. Justice…

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Homes Destroyed by Fire

The Propeller · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 1

A fire broke out in a six-roomed weatherboard cottage in G[?]ucesser Road, Hurstville, last Saturday afternoon. The cottage was owned by Mrs. Hargreaves, of…

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Order to Fire on Anti-jewish Mobs

The Sun · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday.--Mobs have looted and gutted the Jewish quarters in several towns in Tripolitania (N. Africa) and troops and police in Tripoli have been ordered to…

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Mayor's 'Minute' on Fire Prompt Action by Staff

The Biz · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 2

Cabra-Vale'e Mayor, Aid. A. Adams, who was on eye witness to tlie fire at the woodyard last Saturday, submitted a minute to council last Moirnay night, statins:…

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Two Children Die in Fire Home Burnt in Fairfield

The Biz · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 1

A tragic and pitiful occurrence was the death of a baby toy and his four-year-old sister when their heme in Dawson Street, Fairfield, was burned to the…

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Good Work by Bush Fire Brigade

The Land · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 9

Good work was done by Milroy Bush Fire Brigade last week in burning about thirteen miles of fire breaks along the Oxley Highway and…

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Boy's Fatal Burns in Grass Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 5

FORBES, Friday.--Robyn Kennedy (7) suffered fatal burns in a grass fire near his home, Berkley St., Forbes, late yesterday afternoon…

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Boy's Fatal Burns in Grass Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 14

FORBES, Friday. -- Robyn Kennedy (7) suffered fatal burns in a grass fire near his home, Berkley St., Forbes, late yesterday afternoon…

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Heat Wave Scorching Most of N.S.W. Temperature Nearing 100 Deg. Blaze in Scrub on North Shore

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 2

ALMOST the whole of New South Wales is in the grip of a heatwave, and the city's work is being done under most oppressive conditions…

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