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Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 131

"Fire" Booklet As Help To Migrants

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 10

"Fire! Fire!" a booklet originally produced by a small school at Smythesdale, near Ballarat (Vic.), won first prize…

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Series Of Fires Puzzles Walcha People

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 3

WALCHA, Friday. — A series of fires during the last three weeks have puzzled the residents of Walcha…

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Family Of Six Narrowly Escape Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 3

GOSFORD, Friday.—A family had a narrow escape when fire destroyed a historic two-storey wooden building on…

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Campers' £1000 to Help Fire Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 9

Campers at Bonnie Vale, Bundeena, plan to raise £1000 to buy tents for five families whose weekender camps were destroyed by fire on January 16…

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Troops Refuse to Fire on Workers Trieste.—

Tribune · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 2

Reaction to the terror of t he De Gasperi Government at Modena has had far-reaching consequences all over Italy. ONLY now has it been revealed that military units at Florence…

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Rain starts 15 fires

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 February 1950 · page 3

PERTH, Sat.--Rain started 15 fires in Perth last night. Firemen and electricity linesmen raced to fires at…

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Fire Damages Gunnedah Rail Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 4

GUNNEDAH, Sunday. — A fire which broke out at Gunnedah railway station about 6 o'clock to-night extensively…

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NEWS in brief Bus Driver Stops Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 4

A bus driver leaped from his bus in Bay St., Rockdale,…

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News in brief Bus Driver Stops Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 4

A bus driver leaped from his bus in Bay St., Rockdale,…

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News in brief Bus Driver Stops Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 4

A bus driver leaped from his bus in Bay St., Rockdale,…

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News in brief Bus Driver Stops Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 4

A bus driver leaped from his bus in Bay St., Rockdale,…

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NEWS in brief Bus Driver Stops Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 4

A bus driver leaped from his bus in Bay St., Rockdale, shortly after 10 a.m. today and put…

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Burned by Petrol Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 8

A 19-years-oId youth was badly burned about the legs when the lower portion of his body was…

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Colt Destroyed In Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.---No suspicious circumstances surround the fire which broke out in a stable at Carnegie last night and in which the colt El Latada was destroyed. The blaze which broke out at…

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Colt Destroyed in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--No suspicious circumstances surround the fire which broke out in a stable at Carnegie last night and in which the colt El Latada was destroyed. The blaze which broke out at…

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Colt Destroyed In Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--No suspicious circumstances surround the fire which broke out in a stable at Carnegie last night and in which the colt El Latada was destroyed. The blaze which broke out at…

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Burned by Petrol Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 8

A 19-yeors-old youth was badly burned about the legs when the lower portion of his body was…

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Burned by Petrol Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 8

A 19-years-old youth was badly burned about the legs when the lower portion of his body was…

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Racehorse Dies in Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— El Latada, Mr.J. Newton's wellknown three-year-old stallion, was destroyed when fire broke…

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8 in Family Die in Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.). --Gerald Beagle, a farmer, and seven of his nine children were burned to death early…

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