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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

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Fireman Trapped In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday. -- Three firemen were trapped in a fire in a seven-storey Manhattan business building in the…

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Firemen Trapped In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 9

NEW YORK, Wednesday. -- Three firemen were trapped in a fire in a seven-storey Manhattan business building in the…

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Firemen Trapped In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 9

NEW YORK, Wednesday. -- Three firemen were trapped in a fire in a seven-storey Manhattan business building in the…

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Firemen Trapped In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday. -- Three firemen were trapped in a fire in a seven-storey Manhattan business building in the…

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Firemen Risk Lives in £10,000 Blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 6

Firemen risked their lives to remove three 44-gallon drums of petrol during a fire at the transport depot of Barron and Martin, Ltd., Denison Street, Waverley, yesterday afternoon…

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Fire Brigade Calls in 1946

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 3

Sydney fire brigades received almost 1,000 more calls last year than in 1945, the chief officer, Mr. W. H. Beare, said yesterday…

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Flash of Fire Fall, When Favorite

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Backed for a fortune in the Welter Handicap, at Flemington, today, Flash of Fire touched the heels of another…

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England Again Unlucky Loses Toss And Misses Chances Melbourne Wicket's Fire and Nip Missing

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- England's wretched luck in this Test series continued in Melbourne today, when she lost the toss, missed Morris, and had the great all-rounder Edrich injured…

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Two Suffocated In Prison Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Two men were suffocated, is gaol during a mysterious fire at Towson, Maryland. An investigation of the origin of…

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Two Suffocated In Prison Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Two men were suffocated is gaol during a mysterious fire at Towson. Maryland. An investigation of the origin of…

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Escapes in Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday.--An early morning fire yesterday destroyed the Cadiz Hotel, Kentucky, and an ice plant, but 20 guests escaped…

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Escapes in Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday.--An early morning fire yesterday destroyed the Cadiz Hotel, Kentucky, and an ice plant, but 20 guests escaped…

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Fire at Tom Ugly's. Riverview Cabaret Destroyed

The Propeller · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 4

A lighted cigarette is thought to have started a fire which destroyed the Riverview Cabaret, Princes Highway, Tom Ugly's Point, early last…

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Widespread Raids by Jewish Terrorists; Fire-throwers Used

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

JERUSALEM, Friday.--Jewish terrorism against Britain t flared up yesterday in 16 different parts off Palestine. In one case the terrorists used home-made flame-throwers…

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Widespread Raids by Jewish Terrorists; Fire-throwers Used

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

JERUSALEM, Friday.--Jewish terrorism against Britain flared up yesterday in 16 different parts of Palestine. In one case the terrorists used home-made flame-throwers…

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Widespread Raids by Jewish Terrorists; Fire-throwers Used

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

JERUSALEM, Friday.--Jewish terrorism against Britain flared up yesterday in 16 different parts of Palestine. In one case the terrorists used home-made flame-throwers…

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Widespread Raids by Jewish Terrorists; Fire-throwers Used

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

JERUSALEM, Friday.--Jewish terrorism against Britain flared up yesterday in 16 different parts of Palestine. In one case the terrorists used home-made flame-throwers…

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Widespread Raids by Jewish Terrorists; Fire-throwers Used

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

JERUSALEM, Friday.--Jewish terrorism against Britain flared up yesterday in 16 different parts of Palestine. In one case the terrorists used home-made flame-throwers…

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Widespread Raids by Jewish Terrorists; Fire-throwers Used

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

JERUSALEM, Friday.--Jewish terrorism against Britain Harod up yesterday in 16 different parts of Pulostine. In one case the terrorists used home-made flame-throwers…

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Valiant Stand for England Attack Defied By Ikin And Yardley Fighting Effort to Pull Match Out of the Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Two Northcountrymen--Ikin (Lancashire) and Yardley (Yorkshire)--halted the onward march of successspurred Australian bowlers in a virile stand at a critical period today. EDRICH (85) and Washbrook (54)…

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