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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 135

Night Blaze Destroys Home Wild Scramble To Safety Family Without Shelter

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 6

AN ex-serviceman, his wife, and three young children are homeless following a fire which…

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Night Blaze Destroys Home Wild Scramble To Safety Family Without Shelter

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 6

AN ex-serviceman, his wife, and three young children are homeless following a fire which…

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Night Blaze Destroys Home Wild Scramble To Safety Family Without Shelter

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 6

AN ex-serviceman, his wife, and three young children are homeless following a fire which…

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Night Blaze Destroys Home Wild Scramble To Safety Family Without Shelter

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 6

AN ex-serviceman, his wife, and three young children are homeless following a fire which…

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Lost Their All In Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 6

THE ONLY RECOGNISABLE THINGS left after a fire had destroyed the home of Mr. Edgar Thomas, Monie Avenue, East Hills, early this morning, were the kitchen stove and the frames of two bedsteads. Police and spectators survey the scene today, with the fire still smouldering. The Thomas family lost nearly all their possessions in the blaze…

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Lost Their All In Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 6

THE ONLY RECOGNISABLE THINGS left after a fire had destroyed the home of Mr. Edgar Thomas, Monie Avenue, East Hills, early this morning, were the kitchen stove and the frames of two bedsteads. Police and spectators survey the scene today, with the fire still smouldering. The Thomas family lost nearly all their possessions in the blaze…

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Lost Their All In Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 6

THE ONLY RECOGNISABLE THINGS left after a fire had destroyed the home of Mr. Edgar Thomas, Monie Avenue, East Hills, early this morning, were the kitchen stove and the frames of two bedsteads. Police and spectators survey the scene today, with the fire still smouldering. The Thomas family lost nearly all their possessions in the blaze…

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Family's Close Call In Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 1

A family of four had a close call when a small furniture factory in Monie Avenue, East Hills, and a fibro annexe of tow rooms, used…

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Lost Their All In Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 6

THE ONLY RECOGNISABLE THINGS left after a fire had destroyed the home of Mr. Edgar Thomas, Monie Avenue, East Hills, early this morning, were the kitchen stove and the frames of two bedsteads. Police and spectators survey the scene today, with the fire still smouldering. The Thomas family lost nearly all their possessions in the blaze…

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Stop Press Fire in Grace Bros

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 24

Automatic sprinklers extinguished a fire which broke out in a basement at Grace Bros. Broadway, today…

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Stop Press Fire in Grace Bros

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 24

Automatic sprinklers extinguished a fire which broke out in a basement at Grace Bros., Broadway today…

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Man Killed In Leap From Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- When a fire gutted the Berkeley Hotel at Worthing, on Britain's south coast, early yesterday…

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Bernborough "Causes" Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 11

BRISBANE, Monday.--Fire Brigade Chief J. C. Stephens today blamed Bernborough for an increase in Brisbane's grass fires…

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Fire On Corvette

The Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 9

Swift action by fire bridages late this afternoon prevented a serious fire on the former Australian corvette Tamworth, at…

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Falling Spanner Starts City Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 7

A spark from a dropped spanner yesterday afternoon set fire to petrol on the concrete floor of a City…

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Stop Press Fire on Ship

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 24

A small fire in the steering compartment of the Dutch corvertte Tamworth at Circular Quay was quickly extinguished late this…

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Stop Press Fire on Ship

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 24

A small fire in the steering compartment of the Dutch corvette Tamworth at Circular Quay was quickly extinguished late this…

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Coroner Told Of Husband's Fall in Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 2

A man had died from burns, suffered when he fell into a fire at his home shortly after he had attacked his wife, it was…

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Coroner Told Of Husband's Fall In Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 5

A man had died from burns, suffered when he fell into a fire at his home shortly after he had attacked his wife, it was…

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Coroner Told Off Husband's Fall In Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 5

A man had died from burns, suffered when he fell into a fire at his home shortly after he had attacked his wife, it was…

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