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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

3,308 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 166

Big Blaze Near Wyong

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 3

GOSFORD, Sat.--Scores of firefighters are fighting a big blaze at Tacoma, a small fishing village on the…

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Big Blaze Near Wyong

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 3

GOSFORD, Sat.--Scores of firefighters are fighting a big blaze at Tacoma, a small fishing village on the…

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Detectives Probe Adelaide Fire Section Off Big Factory Burned Out

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sat.--"The C.I.B. Arson Squad is investigating a fire which caused damage estimated at £100,000 and destroyed…

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Detectives Probe Adelaide Fire Section Of Big Factory Burned Out

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sat.--The C.I.B. Arson Squad is investigating a fire which caused damage estimated at £100,000 and destroyed…

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Detectives Probe Adelaide Fire Section Of Big Factory Burned Out

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sat.--The C.I.B. Arson Squad is investigating a fire which caused damage estimated at £100,000 and destroyed…

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Detectives Probe Adelaide Fire Section Of Big Factory Burned Out

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sat.--the C.8.B. Arson Squad is investigating a fire which caused damage estimated at £100,000 and destroyed…

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Detectives Probe Adelaide Fire Section Of Big Factory Burned Out

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sat.--The C.I.B. Arson Squad is investigating a fire which caused damage estimated at £100,000 and destroyed…

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Detectives Probe Adelaide Fire Section Of Big Factory Burned Out

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sat.--The C.I.B. Arson Squad is investigating a fire which caused damage estimated at £100,000 and destroyed…

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Wyong's Fire Escape

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 17 February 1952 · page 1

WYONG, Saturday. — A bushfire which threatened to envelop many homes a mile…

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£80,000 Fire Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 17 February 1952 · page 2

Biggest Adelaide fire in four years caused £80,000 damage to offices at Pope Products factory near the…

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£80,000 Fire Damage In Adelaide

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 17 February 1952 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Saturday. —Damage may exceed £80,000 in a fire which destroyed the offices of the…

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6 Die in Fire

The Sun · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 12

NEW YORK, Sunday.-- A father, mother, and their four young children were burned to death…

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Dinghy Used in Wharf Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 3

Firemen borrowed a dinghy to direct chemical extinguishers on to a fire burning underneath No. 3 wharf,…

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400 leave church to fight fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 1

Four hundred men left memorial services to King George in towns…

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Family of Six Die in Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (A.A.P.).—A father, mother, and their four young children were burnt to death last night…

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£25,000 loss in store fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 5

A fire caused £25,000 damage to a store at Manilla in less than an hour at the weekend…

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Fire Relief Tax Check

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 9

CANBERRA, Mon.--Federal Government officials today started touring N.S.W. bushfire areas to investigate primary producers'…

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Pyromaniac Beats the Fire Alarm

The Sun · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 5

MONTREAL, Monday.--A man whose dreams were "filled with flames" admitted…

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Bushfire Aid Untaxed Public Funds

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday.— Gifts of £1 or more to bushfire relief funds organised by public bodies are allowable…

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Fire in Cottage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 February 1952 · page 9

Two rooms of a brick cottage at 29 Sheppard St., Marrickville, were destroyed by a fire which…

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