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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1953

2,850 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 143

Fire Reveals Skeleton

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. --A fire in a fence of high bracken fern at Jumbuck Hills, near Morwell…

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Man burned in bed fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 3

A man was badly burned at Collaroy last night when he fell asleep in bed while smoking a cigarette…

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Man, 65, Dies in Hut Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 7

A fire started by an overturned spirit stove yesterday burned to death Patrick McHugh,…

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Fire Loss "No Setback" To Oil Research

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 6

Oil search in Western Australia would not be hampered by loss of geological records in the fire…

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Car Fires

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 6

A bag of sand in the boot is cheap protection against petrol fed fires. Roadside dirt is better…

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Saw Fire Approach

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 11

LONDON.-- When fire broke out in her Hampstead flat, Mrs. Barbara Benefield (32) had to sit…

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Saw Fire Approach

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 11

LONDON.--When fire broke out in her Hampstead flat, Mrs. Barbara. Benefield (32) had to sit…

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Saw Fire Approach

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 11

LONDON. -- When fire broke out in her Hampstead flat, Mrs. Barbara Benefield (32) had to sit…

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Saw Fire Approach

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 11

LONDON.--When fire broke out in her Hampstead flat, Mrs. Barbara Benefield (32) had to sit…

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Thousands at Perth Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 3

PERTH, Wednesday. — Thousands of people to-night watched a fire destroy Washing Bros. furniture factory in…

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Life's goal lost in fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 10

Fire partly destroyed yesterday a home into which a 62-years-old man had put all his…

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Anti-red Rebels Fire on Trains

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 7

BERLIN, Thurs. (Kemsley).-- More than half the trains arriving in East Germany from Poland and Russia have to be repaired on arrival because of serious damage from shell…

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Anti-red Rebels Fire on Trains

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 7

BERLIN, Thurs. (Kemsley).-- More than half the trains arriving in East Germany from Poland and Russia have to be repaired on arrival because of serious damage from shell…

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Anti-red Rebels Fire on Trains

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 7

BERLIN, Thurs. (Kemsley).--More than half the trains arriving in East Germany from Poland and Russia have to be repaired on arrival because of serious damage from shell…

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Anti-red Rebels Fire on Trains

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 7

BERLIN, Thurs.(Kemsley).-- More than half the trains arriving in East Germany from Poland and Russia have to be repaired on arrival because of serious damage from shell…

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Anti-red Rebels Fire on Trains

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 7

BERLIN, Thurs. (Ciemsley) —More than half the trains arriving in last- Germany from Poland and Russia have to be repaired on arrival because of serious damage from shell…

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Reds Fire or Spotting U.n. Plane

The Sun · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 4

TOKIO, Thursday.--Red anti-aircraft yesterday fired on a UN plane spotting the…

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21 Bodies Found in Heap Near Factory Fire Escape Many Die in Explosion Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 3

CHICAGO, Fri. (A.P., I.N.S.).-- Employees, their hair burnt off and their clothes ablaze, ran screaming into the street after an…

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21 Bodies Found in Heap Near Factory Fire Escape Many Die in Explosion Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 3

CHICAGO, Fri. (A.P., I.N.S.). --Employees, their hair burnt off and their clothes ablaze, ran screaming into the street after an…

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21 Bodies Found in Heap Near Factory Fire Escape Many Die in Explosion. Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 3

CHICAGO, Fri. (A.P., I.N.S.). -- Employees, their hair burnt off and their clothes ablaze, ran screaming into the street after an…

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