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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 79 of 131

Bullets Fly During Fires

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 3

TARANGAU (Los Negros), Thursday. -- With cartridges exploding around them, civilians and service personnel last…

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Gutted by Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 6

Fire gutted a caravan oh an allotment of land near Sturt St.. Kingsford, today. Occupier of the caravan, a…

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Gutted by Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 6

Fire gutted a caravan on an allotment of land near Sturt St., Kingsford today. Occupier of the caravan, a…

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Gutted by Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 6

Fire gutted a caravan on an allotment of land, near Sturt St., Kingsford, today. Occupier of the caravan, a…

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Preparing for Fire Danger Public Co-operation Sought

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 3

In view of forecasts of dry weather ahead and because of heavy growth all over the district, Penrith police are apprehensive of the return of the bush…

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Pope Pius Xii Priest and Statesman Chapter Xvi. Rome Under Fire

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 4

THE war had begun to make its economic influence felt in the Vatican State. Rationing of essential…

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Big blaze in London

The Sun · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- Thousands of homeward-bound Londoners yesterday watched 120 firemen fighting a blaze…

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Tram Crash Hurts 8 Firemen Put Out Motor Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 3

A collision between a crowded Bondi-bound tram and an empty tram at the corner of Oxford Street and Ocean…

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Fire Danger Is Great

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 1

THOSE entrusted with organising precautionary measures are alarmed by the prospects of tremendous bushfire risk during…

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Fire at Varnish Factory

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 9

Damage estimated at £3000 was caused when the varnish section of the Standard Paint and Oil…

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Fire at Varnish Factory

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 9

Damage estimated at £3000 was caused when the varnish Section of the Standard Paint and Oil…

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Fire at Varnish Factory

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 9

Damage estimated at £3000 was caused when the varnish section of the Standard Paint and Oil…

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Fire at Varnish Factory

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 9

Damage estimated at £3000 was caused when the varnish section of the Standard Paint and Oil…

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Fire at Varnish Factory

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 9

Damage estimated at £3000 was caused when the varnish section of the Standard Paint and Oil…

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Fire at Yetman Destroys Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 4

TAMWORTH, Thursday.—A fire in a shed at Yetman in the far north-west of N.S.W. destroyed wool valued at £11,000…

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Arson theory in big fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 7

Police believe the fire which destroyed a Railways Department bulk store causing £750,000 damage may have been started deliberately. The C.I.B. Arson Squad…

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Fire in a Fire Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 September 1950 · page 5

Firemen at Darlinghurst station were called yesterday to a fire in a washroom in the fire-officers' residential…

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Warning By Fire Chief On Bushfires Menace

Truth · Sunday 10 September 1950 · page 4

Chief officer of the Fire Brigades (Mr. Griffiths) yesterday warned of the increasing danger of fires in N.S.W. "Fire has already caused very large damage amounting, in one instance recently, to a loss of nearly £1,000,000. It will…

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No inquiry info £750,000 fire

The Sun · Sunday 10 September 1950 · page 9

There will be no inquiry into the cause of the £750,000 fire at the Government Railways Stores, Lilyfield, last…

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Police fire shots at speeding car

The Sun · Sunday 10 September 1950 · page 52

MELBOURNE, Saturday. CREW of a police patrol car fired six shots while chasing a car…

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