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Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 135

Car on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 11

A man was severely burnt about the hand and wrist at Newtown last night when the car he was repairing back-fired and caught alight…

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Coalmine Fire Under Control

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.--A fire which broke out in the old workings at Cessnock No. 2 colliery today is now under control…

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Fire Under Control Mine Flare-up

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The old workings at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery, which burst into flame late last April, caused…

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Loan to Britain Under Fire Truman, Byrnes Press For Approval

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 3

WASHINGTON, July 9 (A.A.P.).— Efforts to stop the United States House of Representatives from considering the proposed £A1,375 million loan to Britain…

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Fifty-seven Years of Fire Protection. Wormald Bros. Pty. Ltd

Construction · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 7

The importance of fire protection in modern cities was perhaps never thoroughly appreciated by the ordinary man in the street until it was forcibly brought home to him during the London Blitz:,…

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A Bush Fire

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 22

The bush was a beautiful sight, with tall, slender trees towering up towards the sky, the wild flowers swaying in the gentle…

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Child Badly Burned by Primus Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 3

A five-years-old boy suffered shocking burns to the face and arms when he was showered with flames after a bottle of…

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Child Badly Burned by Primus Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 3

A five-years-old boy suffered shocking burns to the face and arms when he was showered with flames after a bottle of…

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Child Badly Burned by Primus Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 3

A five-years-old boy suffered shocking burns to the face and arms when he was showered with flames after a bottle of…

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Negro Admits Killing Four; Fires Home

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 3

LAURINBURG (N. Carolina), Friday. -- Benjamin Franklin McCleod; 27-years-old Negro farmhand, when admitting that…

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Man Burned In City Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 14

A man was badly burned and three women suffered shock when a fire occurred in a city building yesterday…

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Fire In City Block Injures Four

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 7

When sulphuric ether fumes exploded and started a fire on the ninth floor of the Manchester Unity Building in Castlereagh Street, soon…

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Clothing Set on Fire, Say Police

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 3

Charged at Central Court today with having maliciously damaged 15 frocks, four costumes, two overcoats, and a large quantity of underclothing belonging to a tenant, Barbara Zanda, causing £300…

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£300 Clothing Set On Fire--"How Beautiful"

The Sun · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 3

"What a beautiful fire!" a King's Cross landlady is alleged to have exclaimed woman tenant's clothing, valued at £300, police said in Central Court today. The landlady, Nora Willis, 42…

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Bushfire Brigades to Use Radio

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 2

A SUB-COMMITTEE of the Bush Fires Advisory Commitee has been appointed to co-operate with the Wireless…

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Fatal Blaze In New York

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 3

TWO PERSONS lost their lives and several were injured in this disastrous fire in the Stated Island dock area, New York, last month…

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Fatal Blaze In New York

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 3

TWO PERSONS lost their lives and several were injured in this disastrous fire in the Staten Island dock area, New York, last month…

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Fire Risk

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 23

POTENTIAL are hazard in many city buildings exists in the refuse that accumulates in the basement of lift wells…

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Children Rescued From Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 5

After catching an 18-months-old, baby, who was dropped 15 feet from a balcony into his arms, a man entered a…

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Children Rescued From Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 2

After catching an 18-months-old baby, who was dropped 15 feet from a balcony into his arms, a man entered a…

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