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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1949

2,429 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 122

Thirteen Girls Die in Glasgow Fire Trapped By Flames In Big Store Dramatic Rescues by Brigades, Policeman

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.-- Trapped by flames, 12 girls perished in spectacular blaze which swept Grafton's store in Argyll Street, Glasgow, yesterday. Thousands of horrified spectators watched…

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Thirteen Girls Die in Glasgow Fire Trapped By Flames In Big Store Dramatic Rescues by Brigades, Policeman

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.-- Trapped by flames, 12 girls perished in a spectacular blaze which swept Grafton's store in Argyll Street, Glasgow, yesterday. Thousands of horrified spectators watched…

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Thirteen Girls Die in Glasgow Fire Trapped By Flames In Big Store Dramatic Rescues by Brigades, Policeman

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.-- Trapped by flames, 12 girls perished in a spectacular blaze which swept Grafton's store in Argyll Street, Glasgow, yesterday. Thousands of horrified spectators watched…

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Thirteen Girls Die in Glasgow Fire Trapped My Flames In Bog Store Dramatic Rescues by Brigades, Policeman

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.-- Trapped by flames, 12 girls perishea in a spectacular blaze which swept Grafton's store in Argyll Street, Glasgow, yesterday. Thousands of horrified spectators watched…

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£300 Storage Shed Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 2

A storage shed containing eggs and machinery valued at nearly £300 was destroyed by fire this…

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£300 Storage Shed Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 2

A storage shed containing eggs and machinery valued at nearly £300 was destroyed by fire this…

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Rockets Burst Above Shop Fire In London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 3

LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). —London firemen reported to-day that star shells, rockets and magnesium flares burst…

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Huge Race Track Blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Fri. -- Fire destroyed the 5,000,000 dollars Hollywood Park racetrack at Inglewood, California early today. Firemen saved 600 thoroughbred horses…

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Eureka Film Lacks Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 8

Ealing's second Australian film, "Eureka Stockade," has exciting action fine pictorial sweep -- an…

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600 Horses Escape Course Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday.--More than 600 valuable racehorses were saved from a fire which swept…

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Fire Devastates Racecourse Stand 600 Fear-Crazed Horses Saved Anti-gambling Crank Blamed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday.--More than 600 valuable racehorses were saved from a fire which swept through the lavish Hollywood Park racecourse at…

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Fire Devastates Racecourse Stand 600 Fear-Crazed Horses Saved Anti-gambling Crank Blamed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 5

NEW YORK, Saturday.--More than 600 valuable racehorses were saved from a fire which swept through the lavish Hollywood Park racecourse at…

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Visiting Australians These Tears of Fire, by Clive Turnbull.—The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne. FRONTIER.—Same author and publisher

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 8

THESE slender biographies— they are about 50 pages each and printed in an edition limited to 500 copies—complete a series…

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Policeman began fires through fear of dark

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 12

LONDON, Sat. -- Fear of the dark ruined the police-force career of Wilfred Waters, 22. Waters pleaded guilty…

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Ship fires distress signals in gale; another ashore in bay

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 1

Police and navigation authorities are trying to get in touch with an unidentified vessel that fired distress flares off Botany last night. The south-westerly gale which got the ship info trouble also:…

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Late News Boy Saved From Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 1

A boy, aged 2½, slept alone in a Cronulla weatherboa[?] cottage while fire gutted a garage and laundry close by and destroyed…

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Warships Fire at Airliner New York

The Sun · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 1

A PAN-AMERICAN Airways' pilot has complained that the US Navy fired ack-ack shells at his plane. He says a task force of…

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Ban on Cows Blamed for Bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 16

Mr. J. A. Small blames the local ban on cows for bushfires in the Palm Beach-Barrenjoey area. Mr. Small, a Palm…

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Boots Blaze Behind Hotel Two City Fires Smoke Hinders Firemen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 May 1949 · page 4

Dense smoke greatly hindered firemen called to two fires in the city yesterday. The most serious outbreak…

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Burglary, Fire Wake Sleepers

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 May 1949 · page 5

The incessant clatter of a burglar alarm, and explosions caused by a fire in a big switchboard, acted as unwelcome alarm clocks for some residents at King's Cross and Kensington shortly before 6 a.m…

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