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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 135

Filipino's President UnderFire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 11

MANILA, Thursday. -- Ramifications of the big political machines in the U.S. are simple…

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Children Blamed For School Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 3

Police believe that schoolchildren were responsible for an attempt made at the week-end to burn the boys' section of the Randwick…

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Fire Destroys Bush In National Park

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 9

A bushfire destroyed thousands of acres of bush in National Park yesterday. Park gangers burned breaks at four…

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Cats Main Worry in £10,000 Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 6

Three cats were the main concern of employees of the City Manufacturing Coy. Ltd., whose premises in Sussex St., City, received £10,000 damage by fire early today…

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Heavy Damage in 4-a.m. Factory Fire

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 2

Several thousand pounds worth of damage was done when fire broke out in the City Manufacturing Company's factory in Sussex-street at 4 am today. Starting on the first floor the…

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Pet Cats Main Concern in £10,000 City Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 9

THREE cats were the main concern of employees of the City Manufacturing Coy. Ltd., whose premises in Sussex . St., City, received £10,000 damage by fire early today…

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3 Pet Cats Main Concern in £10,000 City Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 9

THREE cats were the main concern of employees of the City Manufacturing Coy. Ltd., whose premises in Sussex St., City, received £10,000 damage by fire early today…

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3 Pet Cats Main Concern in £10,000 City Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 9

THREE cats were the main concern of employees of the City Manufacturing Coy. Ltd., whose premises in Sussex St., City, received £10,000 damage by fire early today…

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3 Pet Cats Main Concern in £10,000 City Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 9

THREE cats were the main concern of employees of the City Manufacturing Coy. Ltd., whose premises in Sussex St., City, received £10,000 damage by fire early today…

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Fire Threatens, But Doctors Work Airman's Account Of Fatal Crash Eyewitnesses Describe Scenes at Hospital

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 2

DOCTORS calmly continued operating on victims of today's plane crash at Lewisham Hospital while volunteers were fighting flames licking the windows of the operating theatre…

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Terrific Explosion Rocks Harbor Lighter Blown To Pieces Blinding Blast of Fire Alongside R.N. CARRIER

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 5

WITH a terrific report which rocked harbor-side homes, and in a blinding sheet of flame, a 50ft. lighter, moored alongside the aircraft carrier Perseus, near Kirribilli Point, blew up at 8 a.m. today…

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Terrific Explosion Rocks Harbor Lighter Blown To Pieces Blinding Blast of Fire Alongside R.N. CARRIER

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 5

WITH a terrific report which rocked harbor-side homes, and in a blinding sheet of flame, a 50ft. lighter, moored alongside the aircraft carrier Perseus, near Kirribilli Point, blew up at 8 a.m. today…

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Terrific Explosion Rocks Harbor Lighter Blown To Pieces Blinding Blast of Fire Alongside R.N. CARRIER

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 5

WITH a terrific report which rocked harbor-side homes, and in a blinding sheet of flame, a 50ft. lighter, moored alongside the aircraft carrier Perseus, near Kirribilli Point, blew up at 8 a.m. today…

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Terrific Explosion Rocks Harbor Lighter Blown To Pieces Blinding Blast of Fire Alongside R.N, CARRIER

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 5

WITH a terrific report which rocked harbor-side homes, and in a blinding sheet of flame, a 50ft. lighter, moored alongside the aircraft carrier Perseus, near Kirribilli Point, blew up at 8 a.m. today…

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Bushfire Warning

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 13

Weather Notes.--At 9 am today some rather scattered light to moderate rain was recorded over the northern and central Inland districts, highest falls…

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TREES for BEAUTY and UTILITY Bush Fire Apathy

The Land · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 15

NINE out of every ten forest fires are man-started. This is the indictment laid by the Forestry authorities against the peoples of Australia,…

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Baits Cause Fires

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 5

U[?]E of phosphorus for the poisoning of rabbits should be clamped down on with a heavy hand in these times when bushfires are such…

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Inquiry on National Park Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 3

A police report on the bushfire in National Park is to be given to the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley. If breaches of the law have…

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Fire Rages Round Woman, Children

The Sun · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE. Friday.--Two women and four children, including a month old baby lay for four hours in a potato paddock…

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Wind Change Saves Party From Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A change of wind saved two men, a woman, a three-year-old child, and a six-weeks-old baby, cut off by a bushfire near…

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