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Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 131

Scotsmen build bonfires because.... Highlands will blaze for second Royal baby

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 April 1950 · page 44

LONDON, Sat.--Highlanders are already planning bonfires to be lit on every hill to announce Princess Elizabeth's second baby. Scotsmen are confident that the baby will be…

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Chance for a fire-bug

The Sun · Sunday 23 April 1950 · page 15

The 21,000 residents of Letchworth, Hertfordshire, dicbi't worry about their street fire-alarm system…

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Officer Dies In Japan Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 23 April 1950 · page 6

TOKYO, April 22 (A.A.P.-Reuter). — One American officer was burned to death, another is missing and four…

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Vice-regal Home Saved From Fire Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 23 April 1950 · page 5

A scrub fire threatened the Vice-Regal residence, Marble Hill, at 1 am today. The fire raced through a…

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Dogged by Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 3

WEST BROOKFIELD (Massachusetts).--Four days after Royal J. Wallace's home was destroyed by fire, a fire swept…

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Dogged by Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 3

WEST BROOKFIELD (Massachusetts) .--Four days after Royal J. Wallace's home was destroyed by fire, a fire swept…

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Fireworks Start Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 3

Exploding fireworks are believed to have caused a fire which partly destroyed a bicycle shop in King Street, Mascot,…

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Roof Fire At Service Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 3

About 40 former Army officers visiting Sydney for Anzac Day were awakened at the Imperial Service Club in Barrack…

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Breaks Window To Reach Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 1

A man kicked in a shop window at Howes and Howes Pty. Ltd., Pitt Street, last night, to reach a burning overcoat…

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Hoetl Guests Flee From Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 2

Guests at the Hotel Coopernook, Coopernook, fled from their rooms clad only in night attire early, this morning when…

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Hotel Guests Flee From Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 7

Guests at the Hotel Coopernook, Coopernook, fled from their rooms clad only in night attire early this morning when…

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Hotel Guests Flee From Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 7

Guests at the Hotel Coopernook, Coopernook, fled from their rooms clad only in night attire early this morning when…

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Hotel Guests Flee From Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 7

Guests at the Hotel Coopernook, Coopernook, fled from their rooms clad only in night attire early this morning when…

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Hotel Guests Flee From Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 7

Guests at the Hotel Coopernook, Coopernook, fled from their rooms clad only in night attire early this morning when…

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Dummy on Fire in City Window

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 7

A man last night saw a dummy smouldering in a Pitt Street tailor's window, smashed the window with his foot, and tried to smother the fire. Shortly after he smashed the window, firemen…

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Mystery Fire In U.S. Atom Station

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 8

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- F.B.I, agents yesterday prowled round the rooms of the University of California atom bomb research plant seeking clues on the mysterious fire which yesterday threatened to destroy…

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Son Drags Father From House Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 1

A man dragged his father from a blazing room at their home in Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, early this morning…

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Rescuers' Ordeal During Blaze Pyjamas Afire, Man Collapses

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 9

Blinded and half suffocated by smoke from a blazing room, two men groped their way through a house at Chatswood early today to rescue a third…

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Rescuers'' Ordeal During Blaze Pyjamas Afire, Man Collapses

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 9

Blinded und half suffocated by smoke from a blazing room, two men groped their way through at house at Chatswood early today to rescue a third…

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Rescuers' Ordeal During Blaze Pyjamas Afire, Man Collapses

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 9

Blinded and half suffocated by smoke from a blazing room, two men groped their way through a house at Chatswood early today to rescue a third…

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