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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1953

2,850 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 143

Blaze gave fireman "limelight"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Saturday.--A volunteer fireman- driver charged with arson started fires to…

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Blaze gavel fireman "limelight"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Saturday --A volunteer fireman-driver charged with arson started fires to…

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Terror blaze blast (10-Mile Damage)

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 May 1953 · page 9

LAS VEGAS (Nevada), Sat.--An atom bomb nearly twice as powerful as those used on Japan in wartime exploded over…

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3 Die in Fire Pusan (Korea), Sat

The Sun · Sunday 10 May 1953 · page 4

Two British soldiers and a Korean were burned to death last night when the box car of a train in…

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Big Blaze At Flemington Grandstand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday. —Fire caused £2,000 worth of damage to Tattersail's grandstand at…

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Race stand damaged by fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun.--Fire today destroyed a big section of…

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Lorry Driven Mile on Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 4

KYOGLE, Mon.--A truck driver yesterday drove more than a mile with the back of his lorry blazing…

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Lorry Driven Mile on Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 4

KYOGLE, Mon.—A truck driver yesterday drove more than a mile with the back of his lorry blazing…

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Lorry Driven Mile on Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 4

KYOGLE, Mon.--A truck driver yesterday drove more than a mile with the back of his lorry blazing…

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Mother, Son Perish As House Burnt Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 4

A woman of 83 and her 50 years-old son were burnt to death last night when their home at Rosemonte, near Goulburn, was…

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Blaze in Cake Works

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 11

Fire last night almost destroyed the interior of a large cake factory in Elswick Lane, Leichhardt, and…

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Sequel to Fires

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 3

WAGGA, Wed. -- Hearing of the first of 404 writs against the Railways Commissioner, as a…

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Invalid, blamed for blaze, is found insane

The Sun · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 13

A 21-year-old invalid pensioner who, the Crown alleged, had caused a £100,000 Pyrmont fire, was found by a Quarter Sessions jury today to be…

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Writs As Sequel to Fires

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 5

WAGGA, Wed. -- locating of the first of 404 writs against the Railways Commissioner, as a…

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Storms, winds, fires kill 200

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tues.--Nearly 200 people were killed yesterday in storms…

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Mother. Son Perish in Blaze Brave Bid To Save Woman

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 2

A woman of 83 and her 50 years-old son were burnt to death last night when their home at Rosemente, near Goulburn, was…

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Mother, Son Perish in Blaze Brave Bid To Save Woman

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 2

A woman of 83 and her 50years-old son were burnt to death last night when their home at Rosemonte, near Goulburn, was…

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Mother, Son Perish in Blaze Brave Bid To Save Woman

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 2

A woman of 83 and her 50years-old son were burnt to death last night when their home at Rosemonte, near Goulburn,.was…

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Guildford Fire Brigade Club

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 3

The social club connected with Guildford Fire Brigade. and conducted by the volunteer section, is getting ready…

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Fire Rescue of Old Man

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 32

LEETON, Wed. -- A young man risked injury to haul to safety an unconscious man from a blazing building in Leeton on Monday night…

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