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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 139

Fire Badly Damages Lorry at Bexley

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 2

RONALD BROKLEY, Oatley St., Balmain, was driving a motorlorry in Forest Rd., Bexley, last night when a fire started at the rear of the…

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Fire Badly Damages Lorry at Bexley

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 2

RONALD BROKLEY, Oatley St., Balmain, was driving a motorlorry in Forest Rd., Bexley, last night when a fire started at the rear of the…

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Fire Badly Damages Lorry at Bexley

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 2

RONALD BROKLEY, Oatley St., Balmain, was driving a motorlorry in Forest Rd., Bexley, last night when a fire started at the rear of the…

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Fire Controlled As Water Supply Fails

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 3

COOMA, Saturday.--All available men fought desperately for two hours this morning to prevent fire sweeping the small town of Nimmitabel, 22 miles from Cooma. WHEN the outbreak was brought…

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Fire Controlled As Water Supply Fails

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 3

COOMA, Saturday.--All available men fought desperately for two hours this morning to prevent fire sweeping the small town of Nimmitabel, 22 miles from Cooma. WHEN the outbreak was brought…

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Fire Badly Damages Lorry at Bexley

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 2

RONALD BROKLEY, Oatley St., Balmain, was driving a motorlorry in Forest Rd., Bexley, last night when a fire started at the rear of the…

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Fire Badly Damages Lorry at Bexley

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 2

RONALD BROKLEY, Oatley St., Balmain, was driving a motorlorry in Forest Rd., Bexley, last night when a fire started at the rear of the…

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Fire Controlled As Water Supply Fails

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 3

COOMA, Saturday.--All available men fought desperately for two hours this morning to prevent fire sweeping the small town of Nimmitabel, 22 miles from Cooma. WHEN the outbreak was brought…

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Fire Badly Damages Lorry at Bexley

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 2

RONALD BROKLEY, Oatley St., Balmain, was driving a motorlorry in Forest Rd., Bexley, last night when a fire started at the rear of the…

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Fire Controlled As Water Supply Fails

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 3

COOMA, Saturday.--All available men fought desperately for two hours this morning to prevent fire sweeping the small town of Nimmitabel, 22 miles from Cooma. When the outbreak was brought…

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Mr. Sheahan Under Fire Selecting Duke's Successor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 4

The statement by Mr. W. F Sheahan, Labour member for Yass that preference for ex-Servicemer should apply in the selection of…

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Three Die in New York Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Three aged men perished and two others were injured when fire swept the three-storeyed Graystone Hotel at…

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FIRE! It Costs Us £1,000,000 A Year

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 19

TO-DAY, Australia spends much more than £1,000,000 a year directly on city fire protection. Fire-fighting is an exact science involving the use of multi-horsepowered engines, high-pressure pumps,…

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Seven Missing in U.s. Blaze

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1947 · page 1

CLEVELAND, Saturday.—At least seven people are missing and 17 were injured, six critically, in an explosion and fire which demolished an apartment building today…

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Under fire

The Sun · Sunday 19 January 1947 · page 6

SEDGMAN . . . most promising junior in Australia, but . . . WORTHINGTON . . . seems more of a fighter than…

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Car Fire Mystery

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1947 · page 35

C.I.B. detectives are investigating a mysterious fire which destroyed a 1940 sedan car in thick bush in Kuring-gai Chase…

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Rotoiti, Saved From Fire, Wins at Last

The Sun · Sunday 19 January 1947 · page 2

ROTOITI, winner of the first Fixed Maiden Stakes at Canterbury yesterday, survived a fire aboard ship as a yearling while being brought to Sydney from New Zealand…

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Burnt-out Radios; Council May Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 3

Action urging the Sydney County Council to pay for repairs to radios burnt out during last week's power failures is expected…

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Children Perish In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 6

NEW YORK, Monday.--Five children perished in a fire following an explosion at a farmhouse at Pleasantville…

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Children Perish In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 6

NEW YORK, Monday.--Five children perished in a fire following an explosion at a farmhouse at Pleasantville…

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