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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

3,866 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 194

Car Strikes Fire Officer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 16

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday. -- Fire Officer F. Vignall was knocked down by a car and injured last night…

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Car Strikes Fire Officer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 9

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.-- Fire Officer F. Vignall was knocked down by a car and injured last night…

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Car Strikes Fire Officer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 16

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.-- Fire Officer F. Vignall was knocked down by a car and injured last night…

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Fire Destroys Narrabeen House

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 11

Fire destroyed a weatherboard cottage in Loftus Street, Narrabeen, yesterday. Neighbors tried…

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"De Facto" Cease-fire Discounted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 5

TOKIO, Tuesday.--Hints from the Indian delegation to U.N. at Lake Success that there are…

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Cease-fire Urged in Korea

The Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 9

NEW YORK, Monday.--Twelve Arab and Asian nations today amended their resolution aimed at ending the Korean war by including a provision that a cease-fire…

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"De Facto" Cease-fire Discounted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 3

TOKIO, Tuesday.--Hints from the Indian delegation to U.N. at Lake Success that there are…

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£500,000 fire at Geelong

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Firemen worked among exploding ammunition in a £500,000 fire at Geelong railway goods yard…

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"De Facto" Cease-fire Discounted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 5

TOKIO, Tuesday.--Hints from the Indian delegation to U.N. at Lake Success that there are…

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"De Facto" Cease-fire Discounted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 9

TOKIO, Tuesday.--Hints from the Indian delegation to U.N. at Lake Success that there are…

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'I=de Facto" Cease-fire Discounted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 5

TOKIO, Tuesday.--Hints from the Indian delegation to U.N. at Lake Success that there are…

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Fire Razes Home While Owner Out

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 1

Shortly after Mrs. Elvie Prior left her home in Loftus Street, Narrabeen, to visit her brother yesterday her house buist into…

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S.A. Premier's bushfire dash

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 7

The South Australian Premier (Mr. Playford) had a narrow escape while fighting bushfires today. With 14 other…

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6 Victorian Towns Menaced- By Fires

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Fierce forest and bush fires fanned by freshened northerly winds, are seriously threatening at least six townships in Victoria. So far no deaths or serious…

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6 Victorian Towns Menaced By Fires

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Fierce forest and bush fires, fanned; bp freshened northerly winds are Seriously threatening af least six townships in Victoria. So far no deaths or serious…

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Baltimore Harbour Fire

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 1

An uncontrollable fire, swept by a 40-mile-an-hour wind, on January 16 destroyed a five million dollar (£2,232,142) pier, a 25,000…

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Woman Jumps 8 Floors As Fires Rose

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday. --A woman jumped off the eight-storey Savings Bank of South Australia…

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Women Jumps 8 Floors As Fires Rage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday. --A woman jumped off the eight-storey Savings Bank of South Australia…

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Fire warning in country

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 4

The Weather Bureau has warned southern, southwestern, and southern inland areas of New South Wales of…

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Wife Tells Fire In House

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 10

A fire at 500A King St. Newtown, on January 12, resulted in the appearance of the occupier of the premises, on a charge pf arson, before the Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott, S.M…

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