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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 131

Where's the Fire?

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 7

See if you can work out the number of the house in Cherry Street that is on fire. Add up the number of people in the picture, add on the number of dogs, take away the number of women, add on the number of hats, take away the number…

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Young girl dies saving deaf mother in fire MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 3

AN eight-years-old girl was burned to death in her home to-day while trying to warn her deaf mother. A rescuer got to within a yard of the girl, lying on the kitchen floor, but a…

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Fire Service Hit by 40-Hour Week

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday. --Eight metropolitan fire stations would have to close under the 40-hour week for firemen…

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Fire Service Hit by 40-Hour Week

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Eight metropolitan fire stations would have to close under the 40-hour week for firemen…

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Fire Service Hit by 40-Hour Week

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday. --Eight metropolitan Are stations would have to close under the 40-hour week for firemen…

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Fire Guts Plane; Passengers Escape

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 3

TEL AVIV, Tuesday.--As it was about" to take off from Lydda, Palestine, yesterday, a Skymaster belonging to Israeli…

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Fire Guts Plane; Passengers Escape

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 3

TEL AVIV, Tuesday.--As it was about to take off from Lydda, Palestine, yesterday, a Skymaster belonging to Israeli…

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Fire Guts Plane; Passengers Escape

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 3

. TEL AVIV, Tuesday.--As it was about to take off from Lydda, Palestine, yesterday, a Skymaster belonging to Israeli…

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Mme. Chiang Dodges Ack-Ack Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 5

TAIPEH, Tuesday.--Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had to fly through Communist ack-ack yesterday. She was,…

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Mme. Chiang Dodges Ack-Ack Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 5

TAIPEH, Tuesday.--Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had to fly through Communist ack-ack yesterday. She was…

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Mme. Ching Dodges Ack-Ack Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 4

TAIPEH, Tuesday.--Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had. to fly through Communist ack-ack yesterday. She was…

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Mme. Chiang Dodges Ack-Ack Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 4

TAIPEH, Tuesday.--Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had to fly through Communist ack-ack yesterday She was…

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Mme. Chiang Dodges Ack-Ack Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 5

TAIPEH, Tuesday--Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-shek, had to fly through Communist ack-ack yesterday. She was,…

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Mme. Chiang Dodges Ack-Ack Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 5

TAIPEH, Tuesday.--Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had to fly through Communist ack-ack yesterday. She was…

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Mme. Chiang Dodges Ack-Ack Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 4

TAIPEH, Tuesday.--Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had to fly through Communist ack-ack yesterday. She was…

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Paspalum Blots Out Fire Hydrants

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 9

Some fire hydrants at Wentworthville were completely covered by paspalum to a height of three to four feet,…

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£4000 save in factory fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

Firemen last night saved about £4000 worth of patterns and moulds in a fire which threatened Ward's Stoves Pty.,…

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Boys Set Fire to Church in Chatham

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.--Three boys of Gillingham (Kent), aged 11, 14 and 15, admitted setting fire to St. Michael's…

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Boys Set Fire to Church in Chatham

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.--Three boys of Gillingham (Kent), aged 11, 14 and 15, admitted setting fire to St. Michael's…

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News in brief City Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

Police believe that a burglar either accidentally or deliberately started a fire which swept…

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