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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 131

Boofhead Fire-proof

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 25

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Wife set husband's clothing on fire

The Sun · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 3

A police-sergeant said in the Probate Court today that the late Mrs. Alma Isabella Mary…

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10 Dead in African May Day Rioting Natives Attack Trains, Fire Shops

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.-- Ten natives were killed in a violent outbreak of May Day rioting, in the Johannesburg area of South Africa last night. Powerful police and army detachments are…

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10 Dead in African May Day Rioting Natives Attack Trains, Fire Shops

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.-- Ten natives were killed in a violent outbreak of May Day rioting in the Johannesburg area of South Africa last night. Powerful police and army detachments are…

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Autumnal Fires In Suburbs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 2

LIQUIDAMBARS are filling the highways and byways of North Shore line suburbs with lambent…

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Clearing Land, Lit a Fire—fined

Nepean Times · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 5

Charged with lighting a fire without a permit at Warragamba on February 27 (which is within the bush fire danger area) for the purpose of…

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Foundry destroyed in fierce half-hour blaze

The Sun · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 1

Sixteen men had to run for their lives today when within a few seconds the foundry of P. and M. Co. Aust. Pty. Ltd., Canterbury Road, Hurlstone Park, was transformed into an inferno. With a deep roar a large…

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Factory Swept by Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 1

Defying the efforts of firemen, a terrific blaze today raced thorugh the factory of the P. & M…

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Fires Of National Ambition Burn In South Pacific

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

From OUR STAFF CORRESPONDENT IN SUVA The fires of national consciousness are…

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15 Deaths in Bus Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 3

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 5 (A.A.P.).—Fifteen persons were burned to death and 20 injured when the engine of an…

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Driven From House by Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 3

A man and his wife were driven from their bedroom early this morning by a fire which badly damaged two rooms in…

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Heavy Damage in Big Factory Fire Rail-making Machinery Is Destroyed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

Defying the efforts of firemen, a terrific blaze today raced through the factory of the P. & M. Company, Canterbury Road, Canterbury and did…

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Heavy Damage in Big Factory Fire Rail-making Machinery Is Destroyed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

Defying the efforts of firemen, a terrific blaze today raced through the factory of the P. & M. Company, Canterbury Road Canterbury, and did…

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Heavy Damage in Big Factory Fire Rail-making Machinery Is Destroyed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

Defying the efforts of firemen, a terrific blaze today raced through the factory of the P. & M. Company, Canterbury Road, Canterbury, and did…

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Heavy Damage in Big Factory Fire Rail-making Machinery Is Destroyed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

Defying the efforts off firemen, terrific blaze today raced through the factory of the P. & M. Company, Canterbury Rood, Canterbury, and did…

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Heavy Damage in Big Factory Fire Rail-making Machinery Is Destroyed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

Defying the efforts of firemen, a terrific blaze today raced through the factory of the P. & M. Company Canterbury Road, Canterbury, and did…

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Heavy Damage in Big Factory Fire Rail-making Machinery Is Destroyed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

Defying the effort's of firemen, a terrific blaze today raced through the factory of the P. & M. Company, Canterbury, Road, Canterbury, and did…

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Heavy Damage in Big Factory Fire Rail-making Machinery Is Destroyed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

Defying the efforts of firemen a terrific blaze today raced through the factory of the P. & M. Company, Canterbury Road, Canterbury, and did…

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They braved fire for "Pecos Bill"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 7 May 1950 · page 3

Two boys who risked their lives to save a new car from a fire said yesterday that they did it only because their chief, "Pecos Bill," had ordered them to help him…

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Martin Wisdom's Case Book. the Boston Fire

The Sun · Sunday 7 May 1950 · page 13

ON November 8, 1872, only a year after the great Chicago disaster, fire broke out in a Boston drygoods…

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