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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

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Fire Damage to Shed

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 2

The contents of a shed were totally destroyed in a blaze at 754 Hossington Street this morning…

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Fire Damage to Shed

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 2

The contents of a shed were totally destroyed in a blaze at 754 Hossington Street this morning…

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Widow's Shed Burnt Out

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 1

A shed used as living quarters, at 754 Horsington Street, Broken Hill, was severely…

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Police Warning on Use of Fire

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 2

Police today issued an appeal to campers and other travellers in the outback to be careful in their use of fire…

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Hospital Fire

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 1

Auckland, Jan. 3:—Nurses took seven babies and a woman from Narrow Neck Hospital during a fire…

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Fewer Fire Calls

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 6

The installation of the new telephone fire-alarm system throughout the city reduced by nearly 100 per cent. the number of malicious false alarms in the past year…

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Only One Malicious Fire Call

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 1

The Station Officer at the Central Fire Station, Officer H. Clarkson, said…

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Reader Says Fire Hydrants Out Of Order (To the Editor)

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 2

Sir.—Please allow me space in your paper on behalf of a number of people furious and disgusted at…

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Church Fire Charge

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 6

Melbourne: A 19-years-old timber feller, charged with having maliciously and unlawfully set fire to the…

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Tankers Menaced in Aerodrome Fire

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 1

Melbourne: Eighteen petrol tankers and 50 cars were driven to safety as a grass fire swept within a few feet of the tarmac at Essendon aerodrome today…

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Elephant Parties In Circus Fire

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 2

Melbourne, January 8.—An elephant ran about in panic for 15 minutes round a paddock at Beaumaris…

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Fire Destroys Three Shops

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 10

Brisbane: Holidaymakers in pyjamas helped firemen fight a fire in the shopping centre at Scarness, near…

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False Alarm of Fire

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 7

The Central and South Fire Brigades were called to the intersection of Oxide and Chapple Streets shortly after…

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Fire Near Linker

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 2

London, January 11.—A Scotland Yard Irson expert was called to Southampton to help local police [?]…

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Back Yard Fire

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 3

The facing boards of a back yard fence and an outhouse wee severely damaged by a fire which broke…

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Fire Traps Four Men

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 6

Melbourne: A fierce grassfire trapped four firefighters in a corner of a blazing paddock at Euroa…

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Fire Near the Queen Elizabeth

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 5

London, Monday: Southampton police called in an arson expert from Scotland Yard to help them…

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Sheep and Catlle Die in Fierce Grass Fire

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 3

Melbourne, January 11.—Six hundreds sheep and 30 cattle died in a fierce gross fire at Euree yesterday afternoon. Loss of stock and damage to property is…

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£40,000 Blaze in Vic

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 1

Melbourne: A spectacular £40,000 fire roared through, the Sandown Timber Co. Pty. Ltd. yards, in the outer…

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Fire Destroys Factories

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 3

Melbourne January 13. — More that £3,000 damage was caused when a fire destroyed two adjoining Weatherboard…

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