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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

3,308 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 166

Mountain Fire Threat to A.c.t. Properties

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 14

CANBERRA, Thurs.--Gangs of men are fighting a series of fires along a 12-mile front in the Brindabella Ranges in the Australian Capital Territory. The chief fire control…

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Mountain Fire Threat to A.c.t. Properties

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 14

CANBERRA, Thurs.--Gangs of men are fighting a series of fires along a 12-mile front in the Brindabella Ranges in the Australian Capital Territory. The chief are control…

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Mountain Fire Threat to A.c.t. Properties

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 14

CANBERRA, Thurs.--Gangs of men are fighting a series of fires along a 12-mile front in the Brindabella Ranges in the Australian Capital Territory. The chief fire control…

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Three States Hit by Heat Wave Fire Danger In Country Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 1

Three States—New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia—are in the grip of a heatwave. Many country districts in N.S.W. are facing a serious situation with water supplies dwindling and bushfire hazards…

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Bushfire danger in NSW, Vic. Canberra Menaced

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 3

Serious bushfires broke out in New South Wales and Victoria yesterday. In New South Wales the fires…

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Bushfires Threaten Canberra

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday.--Gangs of men are fighting a series of fires along a 12-mile front in…

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Bushfire Threat in A.c.t. Area

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 13

CANBERRA. Thursday. --Gangs of men are fighting a series of fires along a 12-mile front in…

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Fires Sweeping Into Canberra Threat To Townships

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

Bushfires raging throughout N.S.W. are also sweeping on Canberra, where hundreds of people in the Legation area are…

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Fires Sweeping Into Canberra Threat To Townships

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

Bushfires raging throughout N.S.W. are also sweeping on Canberra, where hundreds of people in the Legation area are…

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Fires Sweep on Canberra; Nsw Towns in Peril

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

Bushfires raging throughout N.S.W. are also sweeping on Canberra, where hundreds of people in the Legation area are preparing to evacuate their homes. Disastrous fires are also raging at Heathcote, Engadine, Loftus and…

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Fires Sweep on Canberra; Nsw Towns in Peril

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

Bushfires raging throughout N.S.W. are also sweeping on Canberra, where hundreds of people in the Legation area are preparing to [?]cuate their homes. Disastrous fires are also raging at Heathcote, Engadine. Loftus and…

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Fires Sweep on Canberra; Nsw Towns in Peril

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

Bushfires raging throughout N.S.W. are also sweeping on Canberra, where hundreds of people in the Legation area are preparing to evacuate their homes. Disastrous fires are also raging at Heathcote. Engadine, Loftus and…

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Army Called to Fight Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 2

LITHGOW, Fri.-- Troops, air force men, forestry workers, and open-cut miners are fighting grass and bushfires throughout the Lithgow district…

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Army Called to Fight Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 2

LITHGOW, Fri. -- Troops, air force men, forestry workers, and open-cut miners are fighting grass and bushfires throughout the Lithgow district…

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Workmen Set Off Bank Fire Alarm

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 7

Carpenters working in the Liberal Party rooms in the Commonwealth Bank building, Martin Place,…

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Raging Fire in Threat to Legation Homes

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of people are preparing to evacuate luxury homes in Canberra's exclusive Legation area as the worst bush and grass fires since 1939 sweep in over Red Hill. Disastrous fires are also raging at Heathcote, Engadine, Loftus and Helensburgh (near south coast)…

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Raging Fire in Threat to Legation Homes

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of people are preparing to evacuate luxury homes in Canberra's exclusive Legation area as the worst bush and grass fires since 1939 sweep in over Red Hill. L Disastrous fires are also raging at Heathcote, Engadine, Loftus and Helensburgh (near south Coast)…

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£20,000 loss in store fire at Lismore

The Sun · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 3

A £20,000 fire gutted the two-storied chain store, Penny's, Lismore, at 4 am today…

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46 Homes Lost As Fires Roar Over State 105 8 degrees at 1.15 Pm was Sydney's top

The Sun · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

At least 46 homes have been lost, two men seriously burned, thousands of acres of land devastated and a small village partly destroyed in huge bushfires sweeping NSW. 12 homes have been destroyed around Sydney, and at Tilba, South Coast…

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Protect Your Home Against Bushfires

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 23

KEEP doors and windows closed when bushfires are near your house, says a C.S.I.R.O. spokesman. This simple advice is based on a survey of damage caused by the disastrous fires which destroyed 66 homes at Beaumsris, near Melbourne, in 1944…

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