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Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 131

Factory Fire Victim Dead

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 11

Ernest Watts (31), married, Botany Rd., Botany, who was seriously burned yesterday in a fire, died in…

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Factory Fire Victim Dead

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 11

Ernest Watts (31), married, Botany Rd., Botany, who was seriously burned yesterday in a fire, died in…

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Boofhead Into the Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 25

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Boofhead Into the Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 25

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Factory Fire Victim Dead

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 11

Ernest Watts (31), married, Botany Rd., Botany, who was seriously burned yesterday in a fire, died in…

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Boofhead Into the Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 25

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Boofhead Into the Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 25

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£19,000 Fire in Singapore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 3

SINGAPORE, May 30 (A.A.P.-Reuter). — Singapore police suspect arson in a fire in which £19,000 worth of…

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Two Men Burned In Factory Explosion And Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 5

Two men were severely burned and 20 others had to run from a fierce fire which followed an explosion at the factory of the Ormonoid Roofing and Asphalts Ltd., in…

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Nova Scotian Fires Menage Paper Inbostry

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 5

HALIFAX, Thursday. -- The forest fires in,'Nova Scotia are rapidly growing worse…

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Fire Risk To Bridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 2

Sir,—The alarming possibilities envisaged by Ben Doig in his interrogatories ("Herald," May 30), consisting of five "coulds"…

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Factory fire victim dies

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 10

George Watt, 31, married, of Botany Road, Botany, died in Royal South Sydney Hospital early yesterday from burns he…

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£80 thrown into fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 9

HOBART, Wed. -- A Queenstown man last night burned a wallet containing £80 in notes…

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Tragic Toll in Tram Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 1

Chicago firemen and police shown milling around a charred tramcar which had become funeral pyre for of least 33. persons after if had collided with a petrol truck last Thursday. The blaze set five homes on fire.--(Acme.)…

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Tragic Toll in Tram Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 1

Chicago firemen and police shown milling around a charred tramcar in a city street which had become a funeral pyre for at least 33 persons after it had collided with a petrol truck last Thursday. The blaze set five homes on fire.--(American Associated Press.)…

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Tragic Toll in Tram Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 4

Firemen seen shooting streams of water on to fiercely burning buildings in Chicago The fires started when a tram and a petrol waggon collided last Thursday At least 33 sons were burned to death in the tram…

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Flood, Fires Strike Churches Destruction Caused In Four Archdioceses Of Cananda In Wave Of Major Disasters

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 1

FIFTY Catholic institutions in three Archdioceses have been hit by the worst flood in the history of Canada. Fire has added to the destruction, and uuithin three days struck a grim blow, such as has seldom been experienced…

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Bridge Fire Hasard

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 2

Sir,—Being ignorant of the possible effects to the harbour bridge in the event of a loaded petrol waggon becoming ignited…

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Sheep-killer Gives Fire Alarm

The Land · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 27

FROM MRS. A. C. CHAPMAN, AWANUI, PRIVATE BAG, YOUNG CHAINED-UP kelpie, which had turned killer, gave a fire alarm, which saved a laundry from destruction, and probably saved the house, too…

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Frost and Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 June 1950 · page 11

That shadow twirling on the path Is of a leaf the southern wind Tossed from its twig with…

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