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Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 139

Tim O'hara Between Two Fires

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 19

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Tim O'hara Between Two Fires

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 19

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Tim O'hara Between Two Fires

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 19

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Tim O'hara Between Two Fires

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 19

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Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 19

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Rubbish Fire Proves Fatal

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 2

Vinden Middleton (4), who walked on burning rubbish nearly three weeks ago, died in Prince Henry Hospital yesterday…

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Rubbish Fire Proves Fatal

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 2

Vinden Middleton (4), who walked on burning rubbish nearly three weeks ago, died in Prince Henry Hospital yesterday…

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Unidentified Man Found After Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 8

THE charged body of an unidentified man was found yesterday morning in a burnt-out unoccupied cottage in the Bago Forest, near…

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Unidentified Man Found After Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 8

THE charred body of an unidentified man was found yesterday morning in a burnt-out unoccupied cottage in the Bago Forest, near…

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Unidentified Man Found After Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 8

THE charred body of an unidentified man was found yesterday morning in a burnt-out unoccupied cottage in the Bago Forest, near…

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Half Japanese City Wiped Out by Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

TOKIO, Monday.--A fire, fanned by high wind, is raging in the city of Iida, 100 miles west of Tokio, according to…

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Half Japanese City Wiped Out by Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

TOKIO, Monday.--A fire, fanned by high wind, is raging in the city of Iida, 100 miles west of Tokio, according to…

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Half Japanese City Wiped Out by Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 8

TOKIO, Monday.--A fire, fanned by high wind, is raging in the city of Iida, 100 miles west of Tokio, according to…

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Half Japanese City Wiped Out by Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 8

TOKIO, Monday.--A fire, fanned by high wind, is raging in the city of Iida, 100 miles west of Tokio, according to…

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Police Fire Shots Suspect Hit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 3

A detective watching over a cache of goods believed to have been stolen, shot one of three men who scattered when…

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Illness Did Not Diminish Mr. Hugheses' Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 4

In spite of his long recent illness, Mr. Hughes, M.P., spoke with all his familiar fire at a State election meeting…

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Fire Destroys 3984 Houses; 17,814 Homeless in Japan

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 4

TOKIO, Monday (A.A.P.).--A fire which swept through lida (100 miles west of Tokio) yesterday destroyed more than two-thirds of the city, which has a population of 33,000…

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Fire Sweeps Through City In Japan: 4,000 Homes Destroyed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, April 21 (A.A.P.). — A fire which started in a geisha girl boarding house swept through the…

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Fire at Factory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 3

Fire last night destroyed 100 tons of cotton waste and coir matting at the works of the Australian Cotton Manufacturing Company, O'Riordan…

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Texas City Fire Pictures

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 3

DRAMATIC SCENE during rescue operations after the terrible explosion at Texas City. A doctor, aided by a policeman and nurses, administers plasma to a blast victim…

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