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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 125

£200,000 Mill Fire in Tas

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 6

HOBART, Fri.--Damage estimated at £200,000 was caused last night when the…

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Rain Ends Bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Soaking rain has put out every major bushfire in Victoria…

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Second big fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

PUSAN, Sat. (A.P.). -- Eight thousand people were homeless at dawn today after the second…

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Second big fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 4

PUSAN, Sat. (A.P.). -- Eight thousand people were homeless at dawn today after the second…

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Warehouse damaged by fire

The Sun · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 2

Fire early this morning destroyed toys and severely damaged a warehouse in Well St…

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Fire Damages City Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 2

Fire brigades from Waterloo, Redfern and George St. West early today fought a fire that…

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Fire Damages City Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

Fire brigades from Waterloo, Redfern and George St. West early today fought a fire that…

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Fire Damages City Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 10

Fire brigades from Waterloo, Redfern and George St. West early today fought a fire that…

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Fire Damages City Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

Fire brigades from Waterloo, Redfern and George St. West early today fought a fire that…

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Driver's Clothes Catch Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

British race driver, Eric Forest Greene, his clothing aflame with burning petrol, stumbles away from his car after it caught fire at an international race in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this week. A policeman is running in front of him. Greene was admitted to hospital in a grave condition…

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Fire Damages City Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 11

Fire brigades from Waterloo, . Redfern . and George St., West early, today fought a fire that…

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Fire Damages City Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

Fire brigades from Waterloo, Redfern anc George St. West early today fought a fire that…

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Icy Struggle Against Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 9

TREES and broken fences iced up as water from the hoses sprayed on to them when firemen fought a fire yesterday in London's freezing weather.--Radiophoto…

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Fire Damages City Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 10

Fire brigades from Waterloo, Redfern and George St. West early today fought a fire that…

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Window Escape In House Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 14

A woman in night attire had to climb through a window to escape from her blazing home in Laycock Road,…

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Fire Deaths End Game For 3 Boys

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 14

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday (A.A.P.-Reuter). —Three small boys died yesterday in a fire which…

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Lift Fire in City

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 3

A fire today badly damaged the bottom of a lift in Cathcart House, Castlereagh St…

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Lift Fire in City

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 3

A fire today badly damaged the bottom of a lift in Cathcart House, Castlereagh St…

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Attempt to Start Shop Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 6

Police believe thare was a deliberate attempt last night to set fire to the Diggers' Fruit…

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Attempt to Start Shop Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 6

Police believe thare was a deliberate attempt last night to set fire to the Diggers' Fruit…

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