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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

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

2 Men Die After Fires in Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 5

Two men have died from burns received in fires at Redfern and Croydon Park last night and early today. Roy McNeilly (38)…

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2 Men Die After Fires in Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 7

Two men have died from burns received in fires at Redfern and Croydon Park last night and early today. Roy McNeilly (38), herb[?]…

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2 Men Die After Fires in Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 7

Two men have died from burns received in fires at Redfern and Croydon Park last night and early today. Roy McNeilly (38)…

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2 Men Die After Fires in Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 7

Two men have died from burns received in fires at Redfern and Croydon Park last night and early today. Roy McNeilly (38), herb[?]…

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Road Crash Starts Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 2

GOULBURN, Thurs. —A 600-gallon petrol tank fell from a lorry today near Marulan, ex[?]…

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£100 fines for fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 10

Five holidaymakers who started a bushfire were fined £20 each in Parramatta Court…

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Road Crash Starts Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 2

GOULBURN, Thurs. —A 600-gallon petrol tank fell from a lorry today near Marulan, ex[?]…

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Two Dead; Heavy Damage in Statewide Fires Mother rescues children

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 1

Two men-- one at Redfern and one at Croydon Park-- were so severely burned last night that they died later in hospital…

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Left Fire In Open: Rye Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 4

Five men were each fined £20 in Parramatta Court yesterday for leaving a fire in the open before it had…

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Bushfire Threatens Homes Near Glenorie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 1

Civilian firefighters used a knapsack extinguisher to fight a bushfire al Glenorie yesterday. The fire threatened homesteads and orchards. (Story, p. 4.)…

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150 fight big bushfire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 5

More than 150 firefighters yesterday controlled a bushfire which…

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Rescued Her Two Babies In Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 3

DUBBO, Thursday.—Mrs. Rodney Croft, of West Dubbo, saved her two children when fire destroyed her home yesterday…

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Park Blaze of Color for Royal Visit

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 2

The Royal Memorial Garden now under construction in Hyde Park will be a blaze of color in time for the Royal visit, the City Parks Superintendent (Mr. Garth) said today. The Memorial Garden will have a sunken pool of…

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Two die in petrol blaze; cripple's act

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- In a raging Temper, a crippled 30 year-old polio victim…

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Park Blaze of Color for Royal Visit

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 2

The Royal Memorial Garden now under construction in Hyde Park will be a blaze of color in time for the Royal visit, the City Parks Superintendent (Mr. Garth) said today. The Memorial Garden will have a sunken pool of…

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Warning on Fire Danger

The Land · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 27

The chairman of the Bushfires Advisory Committee (Mr. Messer) yesterday warned that the bushfire danger was still…

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Shells explode in train fire

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thursday.-- A derailed petrol tank truck of a goods train exploded in Hilliards. Ohio…

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Egypt's Terrorists Under Uk Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 5

ISMAILIA, Fri. (Extel., B.U.P.). --British troops used mortars to blast out Egyptian terrorists who took refuge in a hut at Wasfia,…

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Egypt's Terrorists Under Uk Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 5

ISMAILIA, Fri. (-Extel., B.U.P.). --British troops used mortars to blast out Egyptian terrorists who took refuge in a hut at Wasfia,…

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