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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 113

Dangers of Bushfire Early Warning To the Editor of the "Herald."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 2

Sir,—The Bushfires Advisory Committee is to be congratulated on drawing attention to the bushfire danger while there is still time…

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Armchair Only Save From £100,000 Fire Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 8 August 1948 · page 28

AN old armchair was the only thing saved from a £100,000 fire which gutted two business premises a t East Brighton this afternoon. The fire, which started in a woodyard, rapidly spread to…

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£200,000 Fire in Shopping Centre Crowds Hinder Firemen Vic. Suburbs Blacked Out

Truth · Sunday 8 August 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A fire swept through a shopping centre at Brighton to-night causing damage estimated at more than £200,000…

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Red Sky Was Aurora, Not Bushfire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 1

The Aurora Australis, flaming in the southern sky, could be seen over a great part of New South…

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Match Starts Fire In Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1

Frederick Merry, 31, of Mary Street, St. Peters, was severely burned yesterday when petrol he was draining…

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School Burnt Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The State school (40 pupils) at .Lismore, 100 miles west of Melbourne, was burnt to the…

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School Burnt Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The State school (40 pupils) at Lisrriore, 100 miles west of Melbourne, was burnt to the…

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School Burnt Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE,Wednesday.--The State school (40 pupils) at Lismore, 100 miles west of Melbourne, was burnt to the…

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School Burnt Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The State school (40 pupils) at Lismore, 100 miles west of Melbourne, was burnt to the…

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Catalina Engine On Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

While a Catalina aircraft was taxiing to a take off position at Rose Bay flying base today, the port motor…

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Plane's Engine Fire Quelled

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 11

While a Catalina aircraft was taxiing to a take off position at Rose Bay flying base today, the port motor burst into flame. THE four members of the…

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Plane's Engine Fire Quelled

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 11

While a Catalina aircraft was faxiing to a take off position at Roe Bay flying base today, the port motor burst into flame. THE four members of the…

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Plane's Engine Fire Quelled

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 11

While a Carolina aircraft was taxiing to a take off position at Rose Bay flying base today, the port motor burst into flame. THE four members of the…

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Plane's Engine Fire Quelled

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 11

While a Catalina aircraft was taxi-ing to a take-off position at Rose Bay flying base today, the port motor burst into flame. THE four members of the…

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Catalina Engine On Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

While a Catalina aircraft was taxiing to a take off position at Rose Bay flying base today, the port motor…

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Alleges, Danger Of Fire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 2

A complaint by a resident of Cowper Street, Granville, alleging that boxes stacked in a next-door box factory constituted a…

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Plane's Engine Fire Quelled

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 11

While a Catalina aircraft was traxiing to a take off position at Rose Bay flying base today, the port motor burst into flame. THE four members of the…

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Fire Aboard Plane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 August 1948 · page 3

The port engine of a Catalina flying-boat, owned by Asian Airlines Pty., Ltd., caught fire when the aircraft…

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"No Fire" Proposal Accepted

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 August 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. -- Arab leaders have accepted a proposal that, from today, neither "side in…

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"No Fire" Proposal Accepted

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 August 1948 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday. -- Arab leaders have accepted a proposal that, from today, neither side in…

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