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Fires & bushfires, 1953

2,850 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 143

Fire Engines in Collision

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 April 1953 · page 3

BALTIMORE, Monday (A.P.).-- Two fire engines collided here yesterday as they were racing to a blaze…

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Fire Sweeps 19th Storey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, April 20 (A.A.P.).—Police hurriedly moved hundreds, of shoppers, office workers and…

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Three victims in truck fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 28

GRAFTON, Tuesday.-- Three men were injured, one seriously, when a furniture van overturned…

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Three victims in truck fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 2

GRAFTON, Tuesday.-- Three men were injured, one seriously, when a furniture van overturned…

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Man saved from van blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 10

GRAFTON, Tues. -- Two men last night dragged a third man from the…

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3.30 a.m. blaze in Brisbane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wed.--The most spectacular fire seen here for years broke out in a building in Queen St…

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3.30 a.m. blaze in Brisbane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wed. --The most spectacular fire seen here for years broke out in a building in Queen St…

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3.30 a.m. blaze in Brisbane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wed.--The most spectacular fire seen here for years broke out in a building in Queen St…

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3.30 a.m. blaze in Brisbane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 6

BRISBANE, Wed. --The most spectacular fire seen here for years broke out in a building in Queen St…

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3.30 a.m. blaze in Brisbane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wed. --The most spectacular fire seen here for years broke out in a building in Queen St…

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3.3 a.m. blaze in Brisbane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 6

BRISBANE, Wed. -- The most spectacular fire seen here for years broke out in a building in Queen St…

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3.30 a.m. blaze in Brisbane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 6

BRISBANE, Wed. --The most spectacular fire seen here for years broke out in a building in Queen St…

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3.30 a.m. blaze in Brisbane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 6

BRISBANE, Wed. --The most spectacular fire seen here for years broke out in a building in Queen St…

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Bond Demand Is Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 31

Sydney philanthropists Sir Edward Hallstrom and Lady Braddon today condemned the Olympic Federation's demand for ex-amateur boxer Norman Jones to…

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Bond Demand Is Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 31

Sydney philanthropists Sir Edward Hallstrom and Lady Braddon today condemned the Olympic Federation's demand for ex-amateur boxer Norman Jones to…

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Bond Demand Is Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 31

Sydney philanthropists Sir Edward Hallstrom and Lady Braddon today condemned the Olympic Federation's demand for ex-amateur boxer Norman Jones to…

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Bond Demand Is Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 31

Sydney philanthropists Sir Edward Hallstrom and Lady Braddon today condemned the Olympic Federation's demand for ex-amateur boxer Norman Jones to…

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Bond Demand Is Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 31

Sydney philanthropists Sir Edward Hallstrom and Lady Braddon today condemned the Olympic Federation's demand for ex-amateur boxer Norman Jones to…

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Pumpkin Thieves Fire on Family

The Sun · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 26

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Pumpkin thieves narrowly missed a man, his wife and baby when…

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Fire threat to freighter in harbor

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 9

The Adelaide Steamship Company freighter Mundalla was threatened today when a lighter…

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