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Fires & bushfires, 1946

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Home At Last For Victim Of Tivoli Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 3

After nearly six months in hospital, Tivoli showgirl Diana Hartt (19), survivor of the theatre dressing-room fire…

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New Role for Helicopters Bushfire Control

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 1

LONDON, March 18 (A.A.P.). —A Royal Australian Air Force officer, who plans to control the bushfire menace by the use of…

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Statement On Uni. Fire Risk

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 11

The fire risk attached to the construction of temporary buildings at Sydney University was fully considered by the…

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Statement On Uni. Fire Risk

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 11

The fire risk attached to the construction of temporary buildings at Sydney University was fully considered by the…

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Statement On Uni. Fire Risk

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 10

The fire risk attached to the construction of temporary buildings at Sydney University was fully considered by the…

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Scene of Fire Fatality in Manly Cottage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 1

Firemen preventing the flames from spreading after a fire had destroyed part of a cottage in Smith Street, North Steyne, yesterday. Joseph Augustus Sly, 71, who was asleep in bed when the fire began, was burned to death in spite of frantic efforts…

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Man Dies In Fire; Wife's Rescue Effort

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 1

A man was burned to death at Manly yesterday afternoon in spite of the efforts of his wife to drag him from a blazing…

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Fire Chat Win May Be Comfy

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 21

Fire Chat, Daily Mirror selection for tomorrow's Cook's River Welter (first division), likes the Canterbury track…

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Fire Chat Win May Be Comfy

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 21

Fire Chat, Daily Mirror selection for tomorrow's Cook's River Welter (first division), likes the Canterbury track…

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Fire Chat Win May Be Comfy

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 21

Fire Chat, Daily Mirror selection for tomorrow's Cook's River Welter (first division), likes the Canterbury track…

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Fire Chat Win May Be Comfy

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 21

Fire Chat, Daily Mirror selection for tomorrow's Cook's River Welter (first division), likes the Canterbury track…

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Ship Fire in Mersey Prisoners Aboard

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 1

LONDON, March 21 (A.A.P.). —Fire raged for two hours in the engine-room of the American ship George Douglas, in the…

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Fire Chat Win May Be Comfy

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 21

Fire Chat, Daily Mirror selection for tomorrow's Cook's River Welter (first division), likes the Canterbury track…

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Barracks Fire in Japan R.A.A.F. Kit Losses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 3

KURE, March 21 (A.A.P.).— Exploding ammunition hampered firefighters when four two-storey barrack buildings housing…

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The Burrcutter and His Mate. The Modern Touch In Bushfire Control

The Land · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 19

"I SEE," remarked the Burrcutter's Mate, dropping [?] newspaper and just failing to beat the clutching hand which was descending on his tobacco,…

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Hair Singed As Woman Flees Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 3

Fire completedly destroyed a bulk store and two houses adjoining it at Tottenham, a small township about 300 miles west…

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Hair Singed As Woman Flees Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 3

Fire completedly destroyed a bulk store and two houses adjoining it at Tottenham, a small township about 300 miles west…

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Hair Singed As Woman Flees Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 3

Fire completedly destroyed-a bulk store and two houses adjoining it at Tottenham, a small township about 300 miles west…

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3 'Diggers' Injured In Kure Blaze

The Sun · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 1

KURE, Saturday. -- When the tiled roof of a billet caved in during a fire at Ujina, near Hiroshima,…

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Hair Singed As Woman Flees Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 3

Fire completedly destroyed a bulk store and two houses adjoining it at Tottenham, a small township about 300 miles west…

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