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Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 139

Tornado Leaves Texas Like Battlefield Fires Rage In Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.--Death roll in the Texas tornado may exceed 200 when search parties have completed their check of ruined towns and…

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Tornado Leaves Texas Like Battlefield Fires Rage In Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.--Death roll in the Texas tornado may exceed 200 when search parties have completed their check of ruined towns and…

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Tornado Leaves Texas Like Battlefield Fires Rage In Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.--Death roll in the Texas tornado may exceed 200 when search parties have completed their check of ruined towns and…

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Tornado Leaves Texas Like Battlefield Fires Rage In Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.--Death roll in the Texas tornado may exceed 200 when search parties have completed their check of ruined towns and…

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119 Killed in U.S. TORNADO Storm Levels Town, Starts Fierce Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thursday.--One hundred and nineteen people were killed and more than 1000 injured when a tornado swept through Texas and north-west Oklahoma last night…

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Huge Fire Raging in U.s. Naval Base

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Friday.--A huge fire is sweeping through the naval base on Treasure island. THE fire has already destroyed one…

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Huge Blaze Sweeps U.S. Naval Base Damage Estimated At £156,250 2000 Called to Fight Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 5

SAN FRANCISCO, Friday.--A huge fire which swept uncontrolled for three hours through the naval base on Treasure Island caused damage estimated at £156,250…

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Huge Blaze Sweeps U.S. Naval Base Damage Estimated At £156,250 2000 Called to Fight Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 5

SAN FRANCISCO, Friday.--A huge fire which swept uncontrolled for three hours through the naval base on Treasure Island caused damage estimated at £156,250…

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Huge Blaze Sweeps U. S. Naval Base Damage Estimated At £156,250 2000 Called to Fight Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 5

SAN FRANCISCO, Friday.--A huge fire which swept uncontrolled for three hours through the naval base on Treasure Island caused damage estimated at £156,250…

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Fire in Railway Trucks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 3

AUBURN and Lidcombe brigades extinguished a small fire which started in a quantity of rubbish in three railway trucks at the Clyde…

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Fire in Railway Trucks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 3

AUBURN and Lidcombe brigades extinguished a small fire which started in a quantity of rubbish in three railway trucks at the Clyde…

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Fire in Railway Trucks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 3

AUBURN and Lidcombe brigades extinguished a small fire which started in a quantity of rubbish in three railway trucks at the Clyde…

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Fire in Railway Trucks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 3

AUBURN and Lidcombe brigades extinguished a small fire which started in a quantity of rubbish in three railway trucks at the…

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Fire in Railway Trucks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 3

AUBURN and Lidcombe brigades extinguished a small fire which started in a quantity of rubbish In three railway trucks at the Clyde…

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Fire in Railway Trucks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 3

AUBURN and Lidcombe brigades extinguished a small fire which started in a quantity of rubbish in three railway trucks at the Clvde…

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Boys Held For Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 6

SHANGHAI, Saturday.--A blazing truck, veering into a restaurant yesterday, caused the deaths of four diners, injury to four others…

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Boys Hold For Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 2

SHANGHAI, Saturday.--A blazing truck, veering into a restaurant yesterday, caused the deaths of four diners, injury to four others…

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Youth Burned When Car Catches Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 2

LEONARD ALFRED COLLINS (17), St. John's Rd., Glebe suffered burns to the right leg and left hand early last night when a car he was…

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Youth Burned When Car Catches Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 6

LEONARD ALFRED COLLINS (17), St. John's Rd., Glebe, suffered burns to the right leg and left hand early last night when a car he was…

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The Fire at M.l.c

The Methodist · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 5

Any serious disaster releases a tide of human kindness: and our experience at M.L.C. has been no exception. The splendid offer by the Minister for the Army through General Berriman, to make…

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