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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 113

Fire at Factory

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 7

FOUR brigades were called to a fire at Felt and Textiles' factory. Doody St.. Alexandria, last night…

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Fire at Factory

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 5

FOUR brigades were called to a fire at Felt and Textiles factory. Doody St., Alexandria, last night…

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Arson Charge Follows Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 5

Police last night arrested a man in Cleveland Street, Redfern, and charged him at Daceyville Police Station with…

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Police Investigate Fire at Cottage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 4

A WAKENED by the crackling of flames at his home in Grove St., Lilyfield, yesterday morning, James Park. Cockatoo…

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Police Investigate Fire at Cottage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 4

A WAKENED by the crackling of flames at his home in Grove St., Lilyfield. yesterday morning, James Park, Cockatoo…

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Police Investigate Fire at Cottage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 4

A WAKENED by the crackling I of flames at his home in j Grove St., Lilyfield. yesterday j morning, James Park. Cockatoo…

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Employees Put Out Lead Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 7

A FIRE which broke out in the mixing room of British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd. factory in Cabarita…

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Employees Put Out Lead Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 14

A FIRE which broke out in the mixing room of British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd. factory in Cabarita…

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Fire Engine Crashes Into Rear of Tram

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 1

WHILE travelling along Botany Rd., Waterloo, today in response to an alarm, a fire engine crashed into the rear of…

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Cease-fire Call In Jerusalem Ignored; UNO Fixes New Time-limit For Its Truce From Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, May 25.—Bitter fighting continued last night in Jerusalem as the time of UNO's original cease-fire demand expired. The, Security Council later last night, however, granted the…

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Fire In Cottage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 4

FIFTEEN YOUNG MEN took a big risk by entering this cottage and garage to save household effects and a utility truck during a fire early this morning. The cottage is situated in Sloane St., Sydenham…

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Fire In Cottage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 4

FIFTEEN YOUNG MEN took a big risk by entering this cottage and garage to save household effects and a utility truck during a fire this afternoon. The cottage is situated in Sloane St., Sydenham…

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Fire In Cottage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 4

FIFTEEN YOUNG MEN took a big risk by entering this cottage and garage to save household effects and a utility truck during a fire this afternoon. The cottage is situated in Sloane St., Sydenham…

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Men Run Risk In Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 5

Risking their lives, 15, young men repeatedly entered a blazing cottage and garage in Sloane St.,…

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Workmen save car from fire

The Sun · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 2

Workmen from a Mar-rickville glass works risked their lives today to save a motor car when a garage…

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Fifty Years Ago Disastrous Fire

Nepean Times · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 2

On Tuesday night Mr. A. E. York, who was returning to his home at Emu Plains, noticed that Mr. P. Vine's store at the corner of High Street and…

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Men Run Risk In Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 5

Risking their lives, 15 young men repeatedly entered a blazing cottage and garage in Sloane St.,…

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Men Run Risk In Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 5

Risking their lives, 15 young men repeatedly entered a blazing cottage and garage in Sloane St.,…

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Men Run Risk In Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 5

Risking their lives, 15 young men repeatedly entered a blazing cottage and garage in Sloane St.,…

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Arabs Reject Cease Fire Defiance of U.N.O.

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--The Arab States have rejected the Security Council's order to cease fire in Palestine…

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