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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 139

Fire Burns Valuable Chemicals

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 8

Highly inflammable chemicals valued at £4000 were destroyed in a fire which gutted portion of Cridland's Bond Store, Young…

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Fire Burns Valuable Chemicals

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 8

Highly inflammable chemicals valued at £4000 were destroyed in a fire which gutted portion of Cridland's Bond Store, Young…

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Fire Burns Valuable Chemicals

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 8

Highly inflammable chemicals valued at £4000 were destroyed in a fire which gutted portion of Cridland's Bond Store, Young…

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Three Die In School Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 18

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- Three high school boys were burned to death when an explosion wrecked a school…

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Three Die In School Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 18

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- Three high school boys were burned to death when an explosion wrecked a school…

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Three Die In School Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 18

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- Three high school boys were burned to death when an explosion wrecked a school…

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Three Die In School Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 18

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- Three high school boys were burned to death when an explosion wrecked a school…

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Three Die In School Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 18

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Three high school boys were burned to death when an explosion wrecked a school…

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Three Die In School Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 18

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- Three high school boys were burned to death when an explosion wrecked a school…

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Three Die In School Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 18

NEW YORK, Thursday. —Three high school boys were burned to death when an explosion wrecked a school…

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Heavy Damage In Fire At Waterloo Store

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

Damage estimated at about £4500 was caused by a fire lasting only 15 minutes in the "hazardous" store of Frank Cridland Pty. Ltd., Young-street…

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£200 Damage by Fire in Ceiling of Garage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 6

A FIRE in the ceiling of a motor garage in The Boulevarde, Strathfield, late yesterday afternoon, caused damage estimated at £200…

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£200 Damage by Fire in Ceiling of Garage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

A FIRE in the ceiling of a motor garage in The Boulevarde, Strathfield, late yesterday afternoon, caused damage estimated at £200…

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£200 Damage by Fire in Ceiling of Garage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

A FIRE in the ceiling of a motor garage in The Boulevarde, Strathfield, late yesterday afternoon, caused damage estimated at £200…

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Warning On Bushfires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

WITH so much of the coastal and Blue Mountains bushlands tinder dry at present, it behoves all who travel along bush-ways, or tarry by roadside…

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Stop Press Grass and Bush Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 32

Fire bridges this morning attended four calls to grass and bush fires, mainly in northern suburbs. The worst outbreak was in a large…

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Minister Warns Of Bush Fire Danger

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, yesterday issued a warning on the dangers of bush fires this month…

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Patients Fight Blaze

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

Convalescent patients helped fight a grass fire which broke out at the rear of Branxton private…

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Three Die Fighting Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday. Three firemen were killed, and several others are believed to be missing following a fire and a series…

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Three Die Fighting Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday. -- Three firemen were killed, and several others are believed to be missing following a fire and a series…

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