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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1945

1,715 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 86

Big City in Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 1

A BLACKENED TANGLE of debris at the Service Elevators and Electrical Co. Pty. Ltd. building, in Goulburn St.,…

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Police Fire On Bukarest Crowd

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.). -- Six people were killed and several wounded when Rumanian troops yesterday machine-gunned crowds in the Royal…

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Undergrads Riot With Fire Hoses

The Sun · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.--Scores of police and passersby were soaked by water from fire hoses and extinguishers…

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Three Men Fight Box Factory Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 15

Three men fought a fire with buckets at a box factory last night until fire brigades arrived. The fire broke out in a stack of tim…

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Second Fire Near Big Shell Dump

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Second fire in two days broke out today at Mt. Cootha, where the Royal…

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Troops Fire on Crowd Demonstrations In Bucharest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Nov. 9 (A.A.P.).—At least six people were killed and a number wounded when troops fired on crowds outside the Royal Palace…

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City Fire One of Worst in Years Four Firemen Hurt By Debris Flames Fanned by 50 M.P.H. WIND

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at many thousands of pounds was caused early this morning in one off the city's worst fires for many years…

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City Fire One of Worst in Years Four Firemen Hurt By Debris Flames Fanned by 50 M.P.H. WIND

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at many thousands of pounds was caused early this morning in one of the city's worst fires for many years…

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City Fire One of Worst in Years Four Firemen Hurt By Debris Flames Fanned by 50 M.P.H. WIND

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at many thousands of pounds was caused early this morning in one of the city's worst fires for many years…

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City Fire One of Worst in Years Four Firemen Hurt By Debris Flames Fanned by 50 M.P.H. WIND

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at many thousands of pounds was caused early this morning in one of the city's worst fires for many years…

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City Fire One of Worst in Years Four Firemen Injured As Wall Falls Flames Fanned by 50 M.P.H. WIND

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at many thousands of pounds was caused early this morning in one of the city's worst fires for many years…

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City Fire One of Worst in Years Four Firemen Injured As Wall Falls Flames Fanned by 50 M.P.H. WIND

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 November 1945 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated of many thouands of pounds was caused early this morning in one of the city's worst fires for many years…

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Young Mother Chose Death By Fire

Truth · Sunday 11 November 1945 · page 13

WHEN a tortured, despairing mind determines on suicide, it usually plans some quick, painless death for the final escape…

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Blood and fire and the freezer

The Sun · Sunday 11 November 1945 · page 4

At Salvation Army headquarters in London, stocky, greying George Lyndon Carpenter marched boldly into the presence of…

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Man's body found on line after fire

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 November 1945 · page 4

While police were searching the ruins of a burned home at Riverstone yesterday for the owner's body, the body was found half a mile away on the…

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Sourabaya Under Fire Allied guns planes in big attack

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 November 1945 · page 1

BATAVIA, Sat. -- British forces have been shelling and bombing Indonesian positions in Sourabaya (Java) since 6 a.m. today…

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Man's body on line after fire Police unearth story of domestic discord

The Sun · Sunday 11 November 1945 · page 3

AFTER police had searched the ashes of his home for a man's body, they found it yesterday on a railway line half a mile away. Police are mystified about the cause of the fire which destroyed the…

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Fire in Iceworks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 5

A fire broke out in an oil store at Fowler's icewoiks Sussex Street, Lilyfield, late last night. It spread to a stack of oil drums,…

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Cruisers Fire on Annamese

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 1

SAIGON, Monday.--After a night of disorders French cruisers yesterday fired on concentrations of Annamese boats on the Saigon River…

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Indonesians Fire Sourabaya While Retreating

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 1

BATAVIA, Sunday.--Indonesians have begun a scorched-earth policy in Sourabaya (Java) as they retreat before British artillery. The Indonesians have been whipped into…

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