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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 113

The Question Box What kind of a fire will torment the souls of the damned?

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 4

"EGBERT," New Zealand, writes : Why do not Catholic apologists state clearly that the Catholic Church has not denned the nature of the fire of hell? R.: They do, when called upon to discuss the nature of the fire of…

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£20,000 Fire in Paint Plant Workers Fight Flames Till Brigades Come New Houses May Be Hit

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 2

BETWEEN £15,000 and £20,000 worthy of damage was caused by a fire which destroyed a building containing enamels and threatened to blow up a lacquer store at…

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£20,000 Fire in Paint Plant Workers Fight Flames Till Brigades Come Building Industry May Be Hard Hit

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 2

BETWEEN £15,000 and £20,000 worth of damage was caused by a fire which destroyed a building containing enamels and threatened to blow up a lacquer store at Davison's Paints Pty. Ltd., Pickers St., Auburn, today…

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Bedroom Blaze Fatality

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 2

A 56 -years -old woman was fatally burned when her bed caught fire at a residential in…

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Bedroom Blaze Fatality

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 2

A 56 -years -old woman was fatally burned when her bed caught fire at a residential in French…

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Bedroom Blaze Fatality

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 2

A 56 -years -old woman was fatally burned when her bed caught fire at a residential in French…

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Fatal Blaze in Bedroom

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 7

MRS. MARION MEAD MORE (56) was fatally burned early today when her bed caught fire at a residential in…

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Fatal Blaze in Bedroom

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 10

MRS. MARION MEAD MORE (56) was fatally burned early today when her bed caught fire at a residential in…

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Fatal Blaze in Bedroom

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 7

MRS. MARION MEAD MORE (56) was fatally burned early today when her bed caught fire at a residential in…

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2000 Fighting Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 3

TORONTO, Friday. -- At least 15 forest fires, covering 130,000 acres, were being fought around Toronto last night by…

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2000 Fighting Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 4

TORONTO, Friday. -- At least A 15 forest fires, covering 130,000 acres, were being fought around Toronto last night by…

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2000 Fighting Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 3

TORONTO, Friday. -- At least 15 forest fires, covering 130,000 acres, were being fought around Toronto last night by…

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2000 Fighting Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 3

TORONTO, Friday. -- At least 15 forest fires, covering 130,000 acres, were being fought around Toronto last night by…

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Paint Store Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 4

A fire which broke out yesterday morning in a big storeroom of Davison Paints Pty. Ltd., at Auburn will not affect…

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Fun and Adventure for All Ages Pop The ire Fire

The Sun · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 13

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Hurricane Lamp Starts Truck Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

A HURRICANE lamp believed to have been thrown by a gang of hoodlums, set fire to a stationary utility truck in Macleay St., Potts Point, early today. THE shattered lamp, which had been taken from a…

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Hurricane Lamp Starts Truck Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

A HURRICANE lamp, believed to have been thrown by a gang of hoodlums, set fire to a stationary utility truck in Macleay St., Potts Point, early today. THE shattered lamp, whicn had been taken from a…

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Hurricane Lamp Starts Truck Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

A HURRICANE lamp, believed to have been thrown by a gang of hoodlums, set fire to a stationary utility truck in Macleay St.. Potts Point, early today. THE shattered lamp, which had been taken from a…

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Hurricane Lamp Starts Truck Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

A HURRICANE lamp, believed have been thrown by a gang of hoodlums, set fire to a stationary utility truck in Macleay St., Potts Point, early today. THE shattered lamp, which had been taken from a…

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Hurricane Lamp Starts Truck Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

A HURRICANE lamp, believed to have been thrown by a gang of hoodlums, set fire to a stationary utility truck in Macleay St., Potts Point, early today. THE shattered lamp, which had been taken from a…

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