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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 139

26 Perish in Italian Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 May 1947 · page 4

TWENTY-SIX PERSONS were burnt to death when this five-storey building, occupied by the Minerva Film Co., in Rome, caught fire. Picture shows a fireman operating a hose from an extension ladder opposite a fifth floor, room, where several people were believed…

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Tobacco Lost in Store Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 May 1947 · page 9

A Roseville fire yesterday destroyed tobacco valued at £150. The tobacco was in Chapman's store, Penshurst Street, Roseville…

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Fire in B.C.O.F. CAMP Two Officers Die

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 May 1947 · page 1

TOKYO, May 25 (A.A.P.Reuter).—Two British officers were killed in a big fire which razed the officers' mess of the British…

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Early Morning Fire in Garage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 3

Several hundred pounds' worth of damage was caused when a fire broke out in the Rushcutters Bay Service…

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Early Morning Fire in Garage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 3

Several hundred pounds' worth of damage was caused when a fire broke out in the Rushcutters Bay Service…

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Early Morning Fire in Garage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 16

Several hundred pounds' worth of damage was caused when a fire broke out in the Rushcutters Bay Service…

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Early Morning Fire in Garage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 16

Several hundred pounds' worth of damage was caused when a fire broke out in the Rushcutters Bay Service…

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Early Morning Fire in Garage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 16

Several hundred pounds' worth of damage was caused when a fire broke out in the Rushcutters Bay Service…

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Early Morning Fire in Garage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 3

Several hundred pounds' worth of damage was caused when a fire broke out in the Rushcutters Bay Service…

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Early Morning Fire in Garage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 16

Several hundred pounds' worth of damage was caused when a fire broke out in the Rushcutters Bay Service…

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Acid Fumes In Fire At Garage

The Sun · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 5

Battery acid and fumes from burning duco menaced firemen who fought a blaze in a garage and women's vanity accessories…

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Flash Was Not Plane On Fire

The Sun · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 3

People at three places--Rathmines, Medlow Bath and West Ryde--reported to police, civil aviation authorities, and the…

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Provosts Fire To Stop Tokio Brawl

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 3

TOKIO, Monday (A.A.P.).--Military police, after firing several shots, last night arrested more than 30 B.C.O.F. troops during a brawl outside the Union Jack Club, Tokio. The incident occurred when an…

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Man Censured by Coroner Fatal House Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 May 1947 · page 3

COONABARABRAN, Monday. —The District Coroner, Mr. F. T. Millarey, to-day censured the neighbour of a woman of 78 who…

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Old Man Fatally Burned When Bed Catches Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 May 1947 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--James Byron Coglan (81), Rathdown St., North Carlton, was fatally burned yesterday when his pipe set fire…

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Old Man Fatally Burned When Bed Catches Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 May 1947 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--James Byron Coglan (81), Rathdown St., North Carlton, was fatally burned yesterday when his pipe set fire…

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Old Man Fatally Burned When Bed Catches Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 May 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--James Byron Coglan (81), Rathdown St.. North Carlton, was fatally burned yesterday when his pipe set fire…

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Fires Lighted to Attract Lost Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 May 1947 · page 7

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Members of a search party tonight lit a large circle of fires around a small Caboolture farm in the hope of attracting back a little boy who has been lost for more than 32 hours…

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Heath on Fire at Sandringham

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 May 1947 · page 3

LONDON, May 29 (A.A.P.).—Fire swept over 300 acres of heath and woodlands on the King's estate at sandringham to-day…

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Mystery Fire At Church Hall

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1947 · page 3

Mystery surrounds the gutting yesterday of St. Swithun's Church of England hall, Pymble, two days before the…

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