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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 139

Moonee Valley Today Experts Review Main-Race Prospects Flash of Fire Has Bright Prospects Fit After Fall And Best For St. Vincent's Hcp

Daily Mirror · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Flash of Fire, who fell heavily at his last start, has fully recovered and is selected to lead home the field in the St. Vincent's Handicap at Moonee Valley today. The consistent Miss Prim and Chatsol look the…

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Moonee Valley Today: Experts Review Main-Race Prospects Flash of Fire Has Bright Prospects Fit After Fall And Best For St. Vincent's Hcp

Daily Mirror · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Flash of Fire, who fell heavily at his last start, has fully recovered and is selected to lead home the field in the St. Vincent's Handicap at Moonee Valley today. The consistent Miss Prim and Chatsol look the…

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Rebuitding Bells For Peace With more than 2000 European churches denuded of their bells by bombs and shell-fire and by the plundering Nazis, bell founders are preparing for a boom which may continue for 20 years or more

The World's News · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 23

BRITAIN, birthplace of great bells and possessor of a jealously guarded secret that makes her product surpreme, has had many of her own…

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Fire

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1947 · page 9

A THIN plume of smoke rose into the air, wavered uncertainly, then fanned out across the hazy sky. The smoke…

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Fire Board designs an open-air stove Rules for cooking safely in open Fires Could Be Danger

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1947 · page 3

A WARNING to householders against using dangerous backyard fires for cooking during the gas…

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14 Miners Trapped Behind Fierce Fire

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1947 · page 44

LONDON, Saturday.—Rescue squads are working feverishly to reach 14 miners trapped behind a wall of fire in a shale mine at West…

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Old woman dies in bushfire

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1947 · page 2

PERTH, Sat.--An elderly woman, caught in a fence, was trapped by a bushfire, and burned to death…

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Parrot Gives Fire Alarm

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday.--Punkin, a parrot, yesterday salved the life of his master, Mr. Theodore Peters, of Endicott, New York, and prevented his home…

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Probe Into Fire at Orange

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 11

Detectives left Sydney early this morning to investigate a fire which broke out last night near Orange in one of the 100…

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Fire Will Release Vic Beer

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 2

WAGGA, Monday. -- Forty tons of poultry and many barrels of Victorian beer will have to be disposed of immediately…

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Fire Will Release Vic. Beer

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 2

WAGGA, Monday. -- Forty tons of poultry and many barrels of Victorian beer will have to be disposed of immediately…

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Probe Into Fire at Orange

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 11

Detectives left Sydney early this morning to investigate a fire which broke out last night near Orange in one of the 100…

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Fire Will Release Vic. Beer

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 2

WAGGA, Monday. -- Forty tons of poultry and many barrels of Victorian beer will have to be disposed of immediately…

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Probe Into Fire at Orange

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 11

Detectives left Sydney early this morning to investigate a fire which broke out last night near Orange in one of the 100…

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Probe Into Fire at Orange

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 11

Detectives left Sydney early this morning to investigate a fire which broke out last night near Orange in one of the 100…

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Stop Press Man Arrested Over Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 24

ORANGE Monday.--Police this afternoon arrested a man in connection with a fire which party…

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Thousands Of Fowls, Turkey Lost In Fire

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 1

WAGGA, Monday.-- Fire, which followed an explosion about 2 am today, gutted a cool store and destroyed thousands of fowls and turkeys. The fire was the biggest the…

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Lonely Death in Bushfire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 1

PERTH, Sunday.—Trapped by a bushfire, Mrs. Florence Grace Wilke, 63, of Maida Vale, met a lonely death near her home on…

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Bushfires Threatening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 3

Warning of bushfire danger in several parts of N.S.W. has been issued by the Weather Bureau. In the Barwon-Upper Darling area…

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Melbourne Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- James Sheridan (80), pensioner, was trapped in a burning bungalow at Albert Park today, and was…

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