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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

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Abbie An' Slats Cease Fire!

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 19

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Abbie An' Slats Cease Fire!

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 19

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'Matchbox Bomb' Sets Fire to Verandah

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 3

LITHGOW, Tuesday. -- "Matchbox bombs" loaded with celluloid slightly injured a schoolboy and started a minor blaze on the verandah of a house in Young St. yesterday. REPORTS of the…

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'Matchbox Bomb' Sets Fire to Verandah

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 3

LITHGOW, Tuesday. -- "Matchbox bombs" loaded with celluloid slightly injured a schoolboy and started a minor blaze on the verandah of a house in Young St. yesterday. REPORTS of the…

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Bushfires In Suburbs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 3

Fire brigades were called to six bushfires in suburban areas yesterday. Five acres of bushland were…

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Man Saves Wife in Shop Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

With flames roaring about them and enveloped in thick clouds of choking smoke, a 40-years-old man early today rescued his wife from their grocer's shop in Storey St…

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Man Saves Wife in Shop Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

With flames roaring about them and enveloped in thick clouds of choking smoke, a 40-years-old man early today rescued his wife from their grocer's shop in Storey St. Maroubra…

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Man Saves Wife in Shop Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

With flames roaring about them and enveloped in thick clouds of choking smoke, a 40-years-old man early today rescued his wife from their grocer's shop in Storey St.,…

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Man Saves Wife in Shop Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

With flames roaring about them and enveloped in thick clouds of choking smoke, a 40-years-old man early today rescued his wife from their grocer's shop in Storey St.,…

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Man Saves Wife in Shop Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

With flames roaring about them and enveloped in thick clouds of choking smoke, a 40-years-old man early today rescued his wife from their grocer's shop in Storey St…

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Man Saves Wife in Shop Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

With flames roaring about them and enveloped in thick clouds of choking smoke, a 40-years-old man early today rescued his wife from their grocer's shop in Storey St…

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EDITORIAL (The opinions expressed in this Journal are not necessarily those of the Master Builders' Association, unless otherwise stated.)BUSH Fire Season

Construction · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 1

Since that disastrous experience of the early part of 1939, when a holocaust destroyed valuable forest areas in the mountains of Victoria and in Southern New South Wales and brought death to…

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Fire Near G.-G.'s RESIDENCE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 12

CANBERRA, Tues. -- The Canberra Fire Brigade tonight put out a grass fire within half a mile of the…

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Man Rescues Wife From Fire in Shop

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 4

With flames roaring about them and enveloped in thick clouds of choking smoke, a 40-years-old man early today rescued his wife from their grocer's shop in Storey St., Maroubra…

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Man Rescues Wife From Fire in Shop

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 4

With flames roaring about them and enveloped in thick clouds of choking smoke, a 40-years-old man early today rescued his wife from their grocer's shop in Storey St., Maroubra…

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Radio call to fight bushfire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 9

Moree police made radio appeals for help when a bushfire broke out on a…

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Danger of Bush Fires

The Biz · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

At last meeting of Fairfield Council, in reply to Ald. Bert Thomas, the Mayor Ald, J. McBurmey, intimated that, the danger created by the heavy growth of…

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Matraville Paper Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

Dense clouds of white smoke rose from two huge stacks of wood pulp which caught fire at the…

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Matraville Paper Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

Dense clouds of white smoke rose from two huge stacks of wood pulp which caught fire at the…

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Matraville Paper Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

Firemen early this afternoon were fighting fires which broke out in two big stacks of paper pulp at the…

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