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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 113

Interior Of Church Burnt Out

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 5

A fire which started in the vestry of St. Thomas' Roman Catholic…

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Priest's Battle with Fire

The Sun · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 3

Roman Catholic priest, Father Haseler, made a gallant effort, single-handed, to fight a fire which gutted the…

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British Fire at Pirates

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 3

HONGKONG, Friday (A.A.P.).--A detachment of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers fired trench…

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Church Is Gutted Willoughby Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 1

Fire gutted the interior of St. Thomas' Roman Catholic Church, High Street, Willoughby, last…

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Priest in Effort to Stop Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 2

A young Catholic priest, who found, his church alight when he went to close it. last night, was…

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Priest in Effort to Stop Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 2

A young Catholic priest, who found his church alight when he went to close it last night, was…

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Priest in Effort to Stop Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 2

A young Catholic priest, who found his church alight when he went to close it last night, was…

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Priest in Effort to Stop Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 2

A young Catholic priest, who found his church alight when he went to close it last night, was…

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Damaged by Fire

Truth · Sunday 9 May 1948 · page 3

The rear of a four-roomed weatherboard cottage occupied by Mrs. Rose Shearer in Gilbert St., Parramatta, was…

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The Senate Was Under Fire

The Sun · Sunday 9 May 1948 · page 22

The Senate has been under fire in the past few weeks during the debate on the bill to enlarge…

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Church Fire Is Still Mystery

The Sun · Sunday 9 May 1948 · page 3

Police and fire brigade officers have been unable to find the cause of a fire which gutted the interior of St. Thomas'…

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Fire in Room at Cathedral

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- A fire broke out in the storeroom at the rear of St. Patrick's Cathedral a few minutes before…

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Willoughby Church Damaged By Fire

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 6

FIRE gutted the interior of St. Thomas's Church, Willoughby, on Friday night of last week, damaging the high altar and destroying much of the structural woodwork of the building…

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1568 False Fire Alarms

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 9

Nearly one-quarter of the calls received by brigades in 1947 were false alarms, according…

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Escape in Van Fire

The Sun · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 6

Driver of a dry-cleaning panel van escaped with a slight injury when the vehicle crashed on its side and…

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Women Panic in Tram Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 2

Screaming women leaped through flames to escape from a tram which caught fire in Alison Rd.,…

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Women Panic in Tram Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

Screaming women leaped through flames fo escape from a from which caught fire in Alison Rd., Randwick, this morning. FLAMES from beneath the…

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Women Panic in Tram Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 2

Screaming women leaped through flames to escape from a tram which caught fire in Alison Rd.,…

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Women Panic in Tram Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 2

Screaming women leaped through flames; to escape, from a tram which caught fire in Alison Rd.,…

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Women Panic in Tram Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 2

Screaming women leaped, through flames to escape from a tram which caught fire in Alison Rd.,…

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