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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

674 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 34

Mother Saves Son From Playroom Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY.—A three-year-old boy was rescued by his mother from a burning playroom today…

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Mother Saves Son From Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mrs. C. Ford, of Vaucluse, saved her son Barry, 3, who was playing in a cupboard in…

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Vandals Set Fire to Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Vandals set fire to the Odeon Theatre, Dec Why, to-day, causing £4000 damage…

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Red Guns Blaze On Korea Front

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 May 1952 · page 2

SEOUL, Fri. (A.A.P.): Furious Communist artillery fire yesterday, for the second day, raked the Korean front where powerful Communist forces were in portion, ready to strike…

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Woman Dies In Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 May 1952 · page 1

Mrs. Patricia Petrie Jenkins, 75, of Metcalfe-street, Speers Point, was incinerated when her shack caught…

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Road Haulage Policy Under Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 May 1952 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The N.S.W. Opposition would fight to save the road haulage industry from extinction by the…

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Fire Soon Out

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 May 1952 · page 4

When logs caught fire off the Pacific Highway yesterday and caused a grass fire. Charlestown Fire Brigade put…

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Cessnock Fires

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 3

Cessnock Fire Brigade put out two small fires in the Cessnock district at the weekend…

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Fire Guts Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 1

LISMORE, Sunday.—Fire men to-day saved Lismore's largest hotel from a fire which destroyed a double-fronted…

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Liberal Move On Bushfire Prevention

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.— The Government will be urged to establish an organisation, similar to the wartime National…

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Fire Boundaries Extended At Lake

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 6

As a result of a recent visit of the Board of Fire Commissioners to Lake Macquarie Shire, the boundaries of the…

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Seven Die in Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 1

QUEBEC, June 4. A.A.P.—Seven children were burnt to death early yesterday when fire destroyed their home at St…

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Blaze Damages Belmont Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 3

The front portion of a house in Bellevue-road, Belmont occupied by Mrs. R. H. Hayman, was damaged by fire shortly…

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Blaze In Big Home At Lake

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 1

The home of Mrs. H. R. Hayman, overlooking Lake Macquarie, in…

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Dog Warns Of Factory Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday.—A £35,000 Newstead soft-drinks factory was saved from destruction by fire early…

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Deaf Couple Slept Through Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. — An elderly deaf and dumb couple slept in their cottage home at Rosebery this morning while…

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3 Houses on Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 2

Neighbors saved the bulk of the furniture and personal effects when the house occupied by Mr. W…

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Fire Destroys Tannery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — Several thousand people watched fire gut a three-storied factory and two adjoining houses at Botany to-day. Seventy city and suburban…

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Fire Revealed Many Secrets Of Nurse "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 3

LONDON, June 9.—Among the embers of the Cheltenham bungalow where Annie Esther Reade was burnt to death, police found many secrets…

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Bushfire Horse In Third Win Melbourne Correspondent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Finentigue, who had his third successive jumping win in the Royal Steeple at Caulfield…

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