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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 135

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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Fire Destroys Railway Shed

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 2

Fire-fighting equipped shunting engines at the Enfield marshalling yards, extinguished a fire that broke out in a email…

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Fire Destroys Railway Shed

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 2

Fire--fighting equipped shunting. engines at the Enfield marshalling yards extinguished a fire that broke out in a small…

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Fire Destroys Railway Shed

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 15

Fire-fighting equipped shunting engines at the Enfield marshalling yards extinguished a fire that broke out in a small…

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Fire Destroys Railway Shed

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 15

Fire-fighting equipped shunting engines at the Enfield marshalling yards extinguished a fire that broke out in a small…

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Fire Destroys Railway Shed

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 2

Fire-fighting equipped shunting engines at the Enfield marshalling yards extinguished a fire that broke out in a small…

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Fire Destroys Railway Shed

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 2

Fire--fighting equipped shunting engines at the Enfield marshalling yards extinguished a fire that broke out in a small…

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Pensioner Loses All In Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 2

An old--age pensioner lost all her possessions when fire badly damaged her room at 510 King St., Newtown, today…

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Pensioner Loses All In Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 2

An old--age pensioner lost all her possessions when fire badly damaged her room at 510 King St., Newtown, today…

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Bedroom Fire Causes Loss To Pensioner

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 5

An old-age pensioner lost all her possessions when fire badly damaged her room at 512 King St., Newtown, today…

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Bedroom Fire Causes Loss to Pensioner

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 15

An old-age pensioner lost all her possessions when fire badly damaged her room at 512 King St., Newtown, today…

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Bedroom Fire Causes Loss To Pensioner

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 2

An old-age pensioner lost all her possessions when fire badly damaged her room at 512 King St., Newtown, today…

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Bedroom Fire Causes Loss to Pensioner

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 15

An old-age pensioner lost all her possessions when fire badly damaged her room at 512 King St., Newtown, today…

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Old Woman Faints In Room Fire

The Sun · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 3

A 63-year-old woman who fainted while fighting a fire in her bedroom in a Newtown residential today, was…

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Girl Saved From Fire by Woman

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 5

When a four-years-old girl's dress caught fire today at Manly, a woman saved her life by snatching the child to her…

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52 Believed Dead In Chicago Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, June 5 (A.A.P.).—Fifty-two people are believed to have died and more than 200 were injured in the screaming confusion of a fire which early this morning burned the 23-story La Salle Hotel…

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Two Dogs Asphyxiated When Kennel Catches Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 7

Two dogs were asphyxiated when their kennel caught fire at 6 p.m. yesterday. The kennel was at Harold Cordery's veterinary hospital in Miller Street, North Sydney…

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Fire and Panic Kill 59 in Hotel Horror

The Sun · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, Wednesday.-- Worst hotel fire m American history took 59 lives here late last night (the toll may be higher) and injured 230 persons. Of unexplained origin. the fire spread with appalling speed…

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52 KILLED, 200 Hurt in Fire Many Leap To Death

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--At least 52 were killed and 200 injured in a fire in the 23-story La Salle Hotel, Chicago, shortly before 1 a.m…

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Chicago Hotel Death Roll at Least 59 Graphic Story Of Tragic Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, Thursday.--Death roll in the disastrous fire early yesterday morning in the 22-story La Salle Hotel, Chicago, has reached a total of at least 59. More than 200 people were injured, some critically…

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