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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1949

2,429 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 122

Workmen Flee' From Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 1

Employees were forced to flee for their lives today, when smoke and flames suddenly belched…

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Family Fled From Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 3

A family of six lost practically everything but the clothes they wore when a fire destroyed their home…

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"Fire Hazard" At Hospital

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 8

TAMWORTH, Fri. -- The Coroner (Mr. T. C. Gascoyne) said today that a hospital building which was destroyed by fire…

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One Fire Union Associations Merge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 12

The State Industrial Registrar, Mr. J. A. Kelleher, yesterday registered the N.S.W. Fire Brigade Employees' Union…

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Beer Quota Lost in Train Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 2

LITHGOW, Saturday.-- The weekly beer quota for a country hotel was lost yesterday when a fire…

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Beer Quota Lost in Train Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 5

LITHGOW, Saturday.-- The weekly beer quota for a country hotel was lost yesterday when a fire…

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£10,000 Fire in Brickworks Blow to Building Trade

The Sun · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 2

A fire today, which swept through portion of the Lion Brick and Tile Works, Chullora--the second largest tile works in NSW--caused more than £10,000 damage and struck a severe blow at the building industry…

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Fire Blow to Builders Tile Plant Blaze

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 3

Public and private housing construction will be seriously impeded by a £10,000 fire which broke out at the Lion Tile Co. Pty. Ltd., in Liverpool Road, Enfield, yesterday morning…

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500 Homes Razed In Island Blaze

Truth · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 1

MANILA, Saturday.—More than 10,000 people are homeless as a result of a disastrous fire at Cotabato, Mindanao,…

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State Department Under Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 9

THE American State Department was wriggling again last week under criticism from one of its most distinguished graduates,…

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10,000 homeless in fire MANILA

The Sun · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 1

FIRE swept through the town of Cotabato in Central Mindinao for eight hours today. It destroyed two-thirds of the city and left 10,000 people homeless…

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Rooms Burnt Out in City Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

Two rooms were burnt out in a fire at Station House yesterday morning. Station House is one of eight city buildings which the Department of Labour and Industry has ordered to be vacated unless adequate fire escapes are installed. (Story, page 1.)…

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Fire Damages Rare Law Books

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Sun. (A.A.P.).--Fire which broke out in the Law Society's headquarters in Chancery Lane yesterday…

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Fire Panic in Mental Home

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sun.--Attendants had to release 225 screaming and panic-stricken insane women when fire broke out in…

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Fire In Big City Building

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 1

Two rooms were burnt out in a fire on the seventh floor of Station House, Rawson Place, city, at 6…

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£100 Burnt in "Death Trap" Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 5

A fire yesterday destroyed £100 in notes in a building which the Minister for Labor and Industry…

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Fire Hazard Action Prosecution Likely Against Tenants

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

BECAUSE of the fire hazard at Station House, Rawson Pilate, proceedings would be taken against 10 factory tenants if they were still in occupation after today, the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said today…

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Fire Hazard Action Prosecution Likely Against Tenants

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

BECAUSE of the fire hazard at Station House, Rawson Place, proceedings would be taken against 10 factory tenants if they were still in occupation after today, the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said today…

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Fire Hazard Action Prosecution Likely Against Tenants

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

BECAUSE of the fire hazard at Station House, "Rawson Place, proceedings would be taken against 10 factory tenants if they were still in occupation after today, the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said today…

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Fire Hazard Action Prosecution Likely Against Tenants

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

BECAUSE of the fire hazard at Station House, Rawson Place, proceedings would be taken against 10-factory tenants if they were still in occupation after today, the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said today…

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