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Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 135

Accident To Heavy Fire Engine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 1

A crowd, quickly gathered to examine the damage done to this six- ton Ere engine which skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole in Botany Rd., Botany, this morning. Three Bremen were thrown heavily to the roadway, but only one was injured.—(See Page 2.)…

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Accident To Heavy Fire Engine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 1

A crowd quickly gathered to examine the damage done to this six- ton fire engine which skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole in Botany Rd., Botany, this morning. Three firemen were thrown heavily to the roadway, but only one was injured.—(See Page 2.)…

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Accident To Heavy Fire Engine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 1

A crowd quickly gathered to examine the damage done to this six- ton fire engine which skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole in Botany Rd., Botany, this morning. Three firemen were thrown heavily to the roadway, but only one was injured.—(See Page 2.)…

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Accident To Heavy Fire Engine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 1

A crowd quickly gathered to examine the damage done to this sixton fire engine which skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole in Botany Rd., Botany, this morning. Three firemen were thrown heavily to the roadway, but only one was injured.--(See Page 2.)…

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Speeding Fire Engine Hits Fence; Man Hurt

The Sun · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 3

A young fireman was injured and four others had lucky escapes when a fire engine skidded, hit a telegraph pole, and smashed into a fence in Botany-road, Botany, today. The injured man is Walter…

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One Injured in Fire Engine Crash Others Have Remarkable Escapes No. 13 Responds to False Alarm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 2

THREE firemen were thrown heavily to the road but only one injured, when a fire engine skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole in Botany Rd.,…

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One Injured in Fire Engine Crash Others Have Remarkable Escapes No. 13 Responds to False Alarm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 2

THREE firemen were thrown heavily to the road but only one injured, when a fire engine skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole in Botany Rd.,…

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One Injured in Fire Engine Crash Others Have Remarkable Escapes No. 13 Responds to False Alarm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 2

THREE firemen were thrown heavily to the road but only one injured, when a fire engine skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole in Botany Rd.,…

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One Injured in Fire Engine Crash Others Have Remarkable Escapes No. 13 Responds to False Alarm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 2

THREE firemen were thrown heavily to the road but only one injured, when a fire engine skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole in Botany Rd.,…

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Letters to Editor Bushfire Threat to Parks Prevention And Cure

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 2

Sir,—All the planning and organisation in the world by the Bushfires Advisory Committee and kindred bodies, though useful to a degree, and,…

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Fire Escape was lucky

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 2

Mr. Fred Christey, owner of Lucky Escape, risked his life to save the colt when fire gutted his property at…

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Mystery Fire Clue to Berowra Girl's Weird Death

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 24

WHEN the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. G.R. Williams) probes the eerie death of 27-years-old Mrs. Gladys…

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Ambulance, fire-engine in crashes: rain brings many accidents

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 2

SKIDDING on rain-soaked Sydney roads, a fire-engine crashed yesterday morning and an RN ambulance in the afternoon. The ambulance…

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For Your Information How bushfires are being fought

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 4

ON an office wall in the Chief Secretary's Department is one of the largest maps of New South Wales in the State…

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Fire Damages Kitchen

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 8

FIRE severely damaged the kitchen of the Mechanics' Institute, Victoria Rd., Rozelle, early this morning. Brigades from Stanmore, Balmain and…

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Fire Damages Kitchen

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 8

FIRE severely damaged the kitchen of the Mechanics' Institute, Victoria Rd., Rozelle, early this morning. Brigades from Stanmore, Balmain and…

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Fire Damages Kitchen

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 8

FIRE severely damaged the kitchen of the Mechanics' Institute, Victoria Rd., Rozelle, early this morning. Brigades from Stanmore, Balmain and…

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Fire Damages Kitchen

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 8

FIRE severely damaged the kitchen of the Mechanics' Institute, Victoria Rd., Rozelle, early this morning. Brigades from Stanmore, Balmain and…

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£15,000 Damage in Woollen Mills Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A fire this morning at the North Western Woollen Mills, at Stawell, 150 miles west of Melbourne, caused £15,000 damage…

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Stop Press Burning Truck Causes Bushfire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 24

A small bushfire was caused today by flaming petrol when the tank of a R.N. truck exploded during a fire on the truck in Prince's…

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