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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 139

Mother and Children Die in Blazing Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 14

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--A mother and two young children were burned to death yesterday when fire swept a three-story wooden building…

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Mother and Children Die in Blazing Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 14

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--A mother and two young children were burned to death yesterday when fire swept a three-story wooden building…

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Mother and Children Die in Blazing Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 14

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--A mother and two young children were burned to death yesterday when fire swept a three-story wooden building…

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Mother and Children Die in Blazing Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 14

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--A mother and two young children were burned to death yesterday when fire swept a three-story wooden building…

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Mother and Children Die in Blazing Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 14

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--A mother and two young children were burned to death yesterday when fire swept a three-story wooden building…

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Bush Fire Danger Mr. Boddeley's Warning

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 2

The New South Wales Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, last week issued a warning on the dangers of bush, fires, during…

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Forest Blaze Under Control

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- After a desperate all night struggle by more than 500 fire fighters, a serious fire in…

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Forest Blaze Under Control

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- After a desperate all night struggle by more than 500 fire fighters, a serious fire in…

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Forest Blaze Under Control

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- After a desperate all night struggle by more than 500 fire fighters, a serious fire in…

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Forest Blaze Under Control

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- After a desperate all night struggle by more than 500 fire fighters, a serious fire in…

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Boy Saves Sister In Stove Blaze

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

Prompt action by a 16- year-old boy probably saved the life of his 13-year-old sister when her…

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Fire Destroys New Business

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 18

A business enterprise started only three weeks ago by two young men, was destroyed last night when a fire broke out in…

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Fire Destroys New Business

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 18

A business enterprise started only three weeks ago by two young men, was destroyed last night when a fire broke out in…

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Fire Destroys New Business

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 18

A business enterprise started only three weeks ago by two young men, was destroyed last night when a fire broke out in…

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Fire Destroys New Business

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 18

A business enterprise started only three weeks ago by two young men, was destroyed last night when a fire broke out in…

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Fire Destroys New Business

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 18

A business enterprise started only three weeks ago by two young men, was destroyed last night when a fire broke out in…

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£1000 Damage In City Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 8

Fire last night caused damage estimated at more than £1000 in Young's Chambers, Park and Pitt Streets. Cause of the fire is not known…

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Fire Threat to Vic. Forest Hundreds Fighting To Check Flames Shift in Wind Saves Town

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--More than 300 men are fighting a serious bushfire which is out of control and racing through Victoria's most valuable forest reserve at Mt. Cole, 22…

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Fires Checked in Victoria

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Nearly a third of the State forest area at Mt. Cole, near Ararat, which covers about 45,000 acres,…

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Home Destroyed by Fire

Nepean Times · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 5

A [?] [?] Penrith [?] and occupied by Mr. Harvey Horgan was totally destroyed by [?]…

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