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Fires & bushfires, 1949

2,429 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 122

Fire Engine Exempt

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 24

SAVANNAH (Georgia).--It's your tough luck if you tangle with a fire engine, city court ruled in voiding Bell…

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Fire Engine Exempt

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 24

SAVANNAH (Georgia).--It's your tough luck if you tangle with a fire engine, city court ruled in voiding Bell…

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Fire Engine Exempt

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 24

SAVANNAH (Georgia.).--It's your tough luck if you tangle with a fire engine, city court ruled in voiding Bell…

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Fire Engine Exempt

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 24

SAVANNAH (Georgia).--It's your tough luck if you tangle with a fire engine, city court ruled in voiding Bell…

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Fire Prevention

The Land · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 8

Sir,—I am interested in Are prevention in wheat crops. My idea is to plant a half-chain wide strip around the wheat paddock with…

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COL. McCORMICK'S Plane on Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Fri. (A.A.P.).--A plane carrying Colonel McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, his wife…

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Fire Fatality Bores Water Supply Need CARRINGTON.—

Tribune · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 7

Last week’s tragic fire which destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt and burnt to death their 19…

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£60,000 Blaze at Rice Mill

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 2

GRIFFITH, Saturday.—Fire today gutted Griffiths Rice Mills, the largest in the State, destroying 140…

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Smash and Fire Leave Car a Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 3

AFTER LAST NIGHT'S SMASH on Great Western Highway. The hat of one of the victims can be seen behind the windscreen; at right injured are being treated…

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£50,000 Damage in Griffith Rice Mill Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 3

A fire which burned the Griffith rice mill to the ground yesterday afternoon destroyed machinery and milling equipment valued at £50,000. Inadequate water pressure from the one fire…

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£60,000 fire in rice mill GRIFFITH

The Sun · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 5

FIRE today destroyed the Griffith Rice Mills, causing damage estimated at £60,000…

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Two Women Die Auckland Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Sunday (A.A.P.-Reuter) — Two women lost their lives when fire destroyed a large boarding-house…

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Twigs for These Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

Berlin's bitter, winter sent this elderly German couple into the Gruenewald, large forest near Berlin, to gather twigs for their fire. Here they are homeward bound with the gleanings…

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10,000 Lose Homes Fire Toll In Japan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

TOKYO, Feb. 20 (A.A.P.Reuter).— A fire, fanned by a strong wind, destroyed 2,500 homes in Noshiro, seaport of…

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Rice Mill at Griffith Destroyed in £ 50,000 Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1

The Griffith rice mill, the largest in New South Wales, was burned to the ground on Saturday. The picture shows flames leaping from the three-storey corrugated-iron building at the height of the fire. Machinery and milling equipment valued at £ 50,000 was destroyed…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti had rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti had rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Feery Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story of The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahitihad rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story of The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti had rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story of The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti had rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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