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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 125

Man burned to death in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 2

A man was burned to death early today when fire gutted a weatherboard cottage at Punchbowl. The man, Mervyn Green (50), laborer, occupied a…

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Man burned to death in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 2

A man was burned to death early today when fire gutted a weatherboard cottage at Punchbowl. The man, Mervyn Green (50), laborer, occupied a…

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Man burned to death in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 2

A man was burned to death early today when fire gutted a weatherboard cottage at Punchbowl. The map, Mervyn Green (50), laborer, occupied a…

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Man burned to death in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 2

A man was burned to death early today when fire gutted a weatherboard cottage at Punchbowl. The man, Mervyn Green (50), laborer, occupied a…

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Man burned to death in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 2

A man was burned to death early toddy when fire gutted a weatherboard cottage at Punchbowl. The man, Mervyn Green (50), laborer, occupied a…

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Man burned to death in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 2

A man was burned to death early today when fire gutted a weatherboard cottage at Punchbowl. The man, Mervyn Green (50), laborer, occupied a…

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Man burned to death in blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 2

A man was burned to death early today when fire gutted a weatherboard cottage at Punchbowl. The man, Mervyn Green (50), laborer, occupied a…

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Fire Calls Increase

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 9

Fire brigades answered 10,295 calls in the city and suburbs in 1953, 505 more than in 1952…

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Modesty fatal Man Burned to Death in Home Blaze

The Sun · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 1

A 50-year-old man was burned to death in a fire which destroyed a fibro cottage at East Bankstown early today…

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Fire Damage to Joss House

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Fri.--Carvings arid curtains in the Chinese Joss House at Breakfast Creek were…

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Fire Damage to Joss House

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Fri.--Carvings and curtains in the Chinese Joss House at Breakfast Creek were…

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Man burned to death in fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 1

A man was burned to death early today when fire gutted a weatherboard cottage at Punchbowl. The man, Mervyn Green (50), laborer, occupied a…

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Royal lunch fire alarm

The Sun · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 3

ROTORUA, Saturday. -- Smoke coming from beneath a bar caused a mild panic…

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White Heat of Oil Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 4

Firemen;crouched on thee ground when this 10,000 gallon pertol tank blew un at Wichita Falls…

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White Heat of Oil Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 3

Firemen crouch, on the ground a this 10,000 gallon petrol tank blows sup at Wichita Falls…

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White Heat of Oil Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 4

Firemen crouched on the ground when this 10,000 gallon pertol tank blew up at Wichita Falls…

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White Heat of Oil Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 3

Firemen crouched on the ground when this 10,000 gallon pertol tank blew up at Wichita Falls…

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7 Babies Saved in Hospital Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 11

AUCKLAND, Fri. -- Nurses look seven babies and a woman from Narrow Neck Hospital during a fire today…

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Residents Flee From Night Fire Threat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 4

Twelve weatherboard houses were threatened by a fire at 10 o'clock last night which destroyed a store…

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505 More Fire Calls Last Year

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 7

Sydney firemen dealt with 505 more fire calls last year than in 1952, the chief officer of the N.S.W…

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