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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 139

Fire Engine Strikes Tram

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 2

A fire engine on its way to Navy House, Grosvenor Street, burst a tyre and crashed into a tram outside the Hotel Australia…

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Mean For Trial Over Fire

The Sun · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 8

Following an inquiry at the City Coroner's Court today into cause of a fire in a Surry Hills residential, an…

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Coffin Is Damaged In Fire

The Sun · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 1

A coffin containing a woman's b o d y was damaged by a fife which broke out in a house in…

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Fire-Engine Rips Tram Footboard

The Sun · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 3

About 12ft. of a tram footboard was torn off when a fire engine, driving to what turned out to be a malicious false alarm, blew a…

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Fire Engine Hits Tram

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 3

A blow-out of a. front tyre on a fire engine, answering a malicious false alarm, caused the engine to crash into the side of a tram in…

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Fire Follows Sydenham Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 3

Donald Connelly, 35, bus driver, of Queen's Road, Fivedock, was burned and critically injured when he was trapped in the burning cabin of a double-decker bus (left) after it had come into collision with a military waggon (right) at the intersection of Railway and Unwin's Bridge Roads, Sydenham, late yesterday afternoon. The military waggon's petrol tank burst and caught on fire, igniting both vehicles…

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Fire Damages British Liner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 3

LONDON, March 24 (A.A.P.). —Fire extensively damaged the liner Monarch of Bermuda (22,400 tons) to-day…

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Bus-driver Burned Fire Follows Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 1

A bus-driver, trapped in the burning cabin of his vehicle after a collision, was burned and critically injured at…

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Fire In Coffin Of Woman; Candle Blamed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 3

A coffin was charred and the body of a woman awaiting burial was scorched in a fire in a house in Short Steet, Balmain, yesterday…

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4,000,000 Dollar Fire in Rum-producing Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 5

SANTIAGO (Cuba), Wednesday. -- A fire of undetermined origin yesterday caused 4,000,000 dollars damage to stocks warehouses and…

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4,000,000 Dollar Fire in Rum-producing Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 5

SANTIAGO (Cuba), Wednesday. -- A fire of undetermined origin yesterday caused 4,000,000 dollars damage to stocks, warehouses and…

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4,000,000 Dollar Fire in Rum-producing Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 5

SANTIAGO (Cuba), Wednesday. -- A fire of undetermined origin yesterday caused 4,000,000 dollars damage to stocks, warehouses and…

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4,000,000 Dollar Fire in Rum-producing Works

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 5

SANTIAGO (Cuba), Wednesday. -- A fire of undetermined origin yesterday caused 4,000,000 dollars damage to stocks, warehouses and…

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4,000,000 Dollar Fire in RUM-PRODUClNG WORKS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 5

SANTIAGO (Cuba), Wednesday. -- A fire of undetermined origin yesterday caused 4,000,000 dollars damage to stocks, warehouses and…

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Troops Fire On Strikers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.). --Troops who fired on Indian police strikers at Patna (Bengal) today killed a policeman and two…

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Dept. Silent About Fire Extinguishers

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 10

THE Road Transport Department apparently is unable to determine the efficiency of fire extinguishers carried on buses. IF the department does know what…

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Fumes Force Men From Fire

The Sun · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 3

Fumes from a sudden fire forced three workmen--George Wicks, 31, Tom Paxton, 42, and Les Robinson, 23--from the…

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Dept. Silent About Fire Extinguishers

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 10

THE Road Transport Department apparently is unable to determine the efficiency of fire extinguishers carried on buses. IF the department does snow wha…

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Dept. Silent About Fire Extinguishers

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 10

THE Road Transport Department apparently is unable to determine the efficiency of fire extinguishers carried on buses. IF the department does know what…

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Dept. Silent About Fire Extinguishers

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 10

THE Road Transport Department apparently is unable to determine the efficiency of fire extinguishers carried on buses. IF the department does Know wha…

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