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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 131

Capetown Fire Menaces Homes

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Saturday. -- A fire on Table Mountain, which has been burning since Thursday night, flared up again last…

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Capetown Fire Menaces Homes

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Saturday. -- A fire on Table Mountain, which has been burning since Thursday night, flared up again last…

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Stop Press Fire Threatens Gasometer

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 12

A fire which broke out in a tank of oil in Fustom Rd.. Alexandria, late this afternoon threatend a gasometer in the premises next…

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Attack in Congress Mr. Acheson Under Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Jan.27 (A.A.P.).—Republicans and Democrats criticised the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean…

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Big Bushfire Under Control

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 3
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Fire brigade officers at Holb[?]ook south of Wagga, reported last night that the bushfire, which, had burned 10,000…

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Bushfire threat to small town

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 1

Late last night more than 100 men were fighting a fire which threatened…

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Holbrook Fire Still Burning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 3

A bushfire that has already burned out about 12,000 acres of grass and forest near Holbrook, in southern New South Wales,…

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Arson Theory In Garage Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Detectives are investigating the possibility of arson following a £20,000 bus depot fire at Heidelberg early today. In the last three months 17…

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Arson Theory In Garage Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Defectives are investigating the possibility of arson following a £20,000 bus depot fire at Heidelberg early today. In the last three months 17…

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Arson Theory In Garage Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Detectives are investigating the possibility of arson following a £20,000 bus depot fire at Heidelberg early today. In the last three months 17…

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Arson Theory In Garage Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Detectives are investigating the possibility of arson following a £20,000 bus depot fire at Heidelberg early today. In the last three months 17…

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Seventeen buses burnt; £25,000 loss in fire

The Sun · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday,--With petrol tanks exploding nearby, 20 civilians risked their lives early today to push buses to safety while fire swept through the Heidelberg Motor Bus Co. Pty. Ltd's premises, causing £25,000 worth of damage…

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300 struggle to save township Fire Moves on Front of Eight Miles

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 5

Three hundred men were fighting last night to save Jingellic township (southern N.S.W.) from a bushfire. Late last night they were burning…

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£1400 Damage Sideshow Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 20

Damage estimated at was caused at Orange Showground last night, when fire destroyed a hoop-la tent…

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£1400 Damage in Sideshow Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 20

Damage estimated at £140 was caused at Orange Show ground last night, when fire destroyed a hoop-la tent…

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£1400 Damage in Sideshow Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 20

Damage estimated at £1400 was caused at Orange Showground last night, when fire destroyed a hoop-la. tent…

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£1400 Damage in Sideshow Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 20

Damage estimated at £1400 was caused at Orange Showground last night, when fire destroyed a hoop-la tent…

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Danger of Fires in Mines

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 6

Fires caused by spontaneous combustion were increasing in number in NSW coalmines, mines…

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Blaze in City Building

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 3

Firemen using a mobile extension ladder pour water into the smoking shell of McQuitty House, Regent St., City, which was gutted in a fierce blaze early today. Damage is estimated at more…

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