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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1953

2,850 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 143

Mother, child die in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.--A young Sydney woman and her eight-years-old daughter were found…

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Mother, child die in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.--A young Sydney woman and her eight-years-old daughter were found…

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Mother, child die in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.--A young Sydney woman and her eight-years-old daughter were found…

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Death in Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Mrs. Leslie E. Carmody (about 30), of Clontarf, Sydney, and her daughter…

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Death in Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Mrs. Leslie E. Carmody (about 30), of Clontarf, Sydney, and her daughter…

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Death in Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Mrs. Leslie E. Carmody (about 30), of Clontarf, Sydney, and her daughter…

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Death in Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Mrs. Leslie E. Carmody (about 30), of Clontarf, Sydney, and her daughter…

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Post Office Accounts Under Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday. —Post Office accounts as they were compiled at present would not be…

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Inquest on Fire May End Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 2

MURWILLUMBAH, Fri.--An inquiry into a fire which completely destroyed a home of a…

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Child and mother die in fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Fri.--A young Sydney woman and her eight-years-old daughter were found…

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Inquest on Fire May End Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 2

MURWILLUMBAH, Fri.--An inquiry into a fire which completely destroyed a home of a…

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Inquest on Fire May End Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 2

MURWILLUMBAH, Fri.--An inquiry into a fire which completely destroyed a home of a…

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Mother And Daughter Dead In Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday —The bodies of a woman aged about 30 and of her eight-year-old daughter were…

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Half-mile Run To Call Fire Brigade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 4

A director of a factory which caught fire yesterday had to run half a mile to telephone the fire brigade…

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Woman Cancer Victim, Daughter Perish in Fire

The Sun · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--A woman cancer victim and her nine-year-old daughter died in a gas-filled blazing holiday shack at Seaford late last night…

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Family's Heavy Loss In Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 July 1953 · page 4

ORANGE, Friday.—Mr: and Mrs. W. E. Parker, their son, Col[?] and their two-year-old daughter, lost all their…

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Fifteen burned to death in forest fire

The Sun · Saturday 11 July 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.--Fifteen men were burned to death last night in a forest fire near Willows, California…

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Crabbe's Creek Inquest Fire Remains A Mystery, But Migrants Warned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 July 1953 · page 4

MURWILLUMBAH, Friday.—The Coroner, Mr. C. H. Hubbard, to-day found that some person or persons unknown maliciously set fire to the farmhouse of Arthur Zakas,…

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Home Goes in Blaze

Truth · Sunday 12 July 1953 · page 7

A weatherboard cottage was gutted by fire yesterday when firemen lacked water to…

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Cottage Fire

The Sun · Sunday 12 July 1953 · page 2

A poor water supply prevented firemen saving a weatherboard cottage in Government Rd.,…

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