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Fires & bushfires, 1952

3,308 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 166

Aftermath of Bega Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 February 1952 · page 5

Top: These stark ruins are all that remain of the home of Mr. George Johnson after bushfires swept…

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Aftermath of Bega Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 February 1952 · page 5

Top: These stork ruins are all that remain of the home of Mr. George Johnson after bushfires swept…

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Aftermath of Bega Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 February 1952 · page 5

Top: These stark ruins are all that remain of the home of Mr. George Johnson after bushfires swept…

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Aftermath of Bega Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 February 1952 · page 5

Top: These stark ruins are all that remain of the home of Mr. George Johnson after bushfires swept…

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Aftermath of Bega Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 February 1952 · page 5

Top: These stark ruins are all that remain of the home of Mr. George Johnson after bushfires swept…

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Big Blaze on Mountains Police Search For Man Fails

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 3

A big bushfire near the Blackheath aerodrome was under control last night after the Blackheath volunteer brigade had fought it for 24 hours…

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Cool change checks fires: patrols still alert

The Sun · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 3

A cool change and drop in the wind today halted, the progress, of hundreds of bushfires that have razed huge areas of NSW. Thousands of weary men who have been…

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Camera record of fires in two States

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 3

A BLAZING free silhouetted against thick bushfire smoke at Barnawartha, Victoria, on Thursday. Three people lost their lives in fires which swept through Barnawartha and surrounding districts. FLAMES make a torch of a flour mill in the main street of…

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Fire In Old Colliery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday. — Thousands of tons of coat are burning fiercely underground in old mine workings behind…

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Fire drives patients from beds

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 7

Nurses yesterday placed patients at Coraki Hospital on motor trucks ready for evacuation. They feared…

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Ryde Council Fund for Fire Victims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 11

The Mayor of Ryde, Alderman H. A. D. Mitchell, said yesterday Ryde Council had opened a fund…

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New Fire Threat in North Flames Encircle Hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 1

The worst bushfires in the history of the district yesterday destroyed at least two homes and seriously threatened a hospital in the Richmond River district,…

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Fire Squads Switched to New Areas North Coast Men Wage Long Fight

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 2

Firefighters in the devastated area of Caffs Harbor are being diverted to battle new fires threatening to engulf rich banana…

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Fire Squads Switched to New Areas North Coast Men Wage Long Fight

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 2

Firefighters in the devastated area of Coff's Harbor are being diverted to battle new fires threatening to engulf rich banana…

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Fire Squads Switched to New Areas North Coast Men Wage Long Fight

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 2

Firefighters in the devastated area of Coff's Harbor are being diverted to battle new fires threatening to engulf rich banana…

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Fire Squads Switched to New Areas North Coast Men Wags Long Fight

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 2

Firefighters in the devastated area of Coff's Harbor are being diverted to battle new fires threatening to engulf rich banana…

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Victorian Bushfires Burn Town Buildings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 1

This aerial picture, taken yesterday, snows how bushtires, fanned by fierce gusts of wind, missed parts of the township of Barnawatha (Victoria), yet destroyed others. Two stores and two churches were burnt in the main street of the town…

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Two Fined For Starting Big Bushfire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 4

GLEN INNES, Friday.— A fire lit by a tin-mine foreman on the orders of the owner of another mine…

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Bushfire Smoke Blankets Coastline Visiblity Cut To 100 Yds. In Sydney

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 2

Pungent smoke from bushfires which, in the post 24 hours, have devastated vast areas of the state, blanketed Sydney this morning…

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Bushfire Smoke Blankets Coastline Visibility Cut To 100 Yds. in Sydney

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 2

Pungent smoke from bushfires which, in the past 24 hours, have devastated vast areas of the state, blanketed Sydney this morning…

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