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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 125

Gaoled Over House Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 6

Mr. Justice Maguire, in the Central Criminal Court yesterday, sentenced William Sylvester O'Shea, 39,…

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£20,000 Fire at Factory

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 2

A fire at Canterbury last night destroyed telephone equipment valued at £20,000…

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No phone delay through fire

The Sun · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 13

Destruction of £20,000 worth of telephone equipment in a fire at Canterbury last night will not…

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Fire Causes £20,000 Loss

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 3

Firemen from six brigades fought for two "Hours to save hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of telephonic equipment from a blaze which…

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Fire Causes £20,000 Loss

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 3

Firemen from six brigades fought for two hours to save hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of telephonic equipment from a blaze which…

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Fire Causes £20,000 Loss

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 3

Firemen from six brigades fought for two hours to save hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of telephonic equipment from a blaze which…

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Ship fire not sabotage Official View

The Sun · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 12

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Services officials yesterday ruled out sabotage as the cause of the fire which burnt out the troopship Empire Windrush on…

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Fire survivors at Gibraltar

The Sun · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 17

GIBRALTAR, Wednesday. -- More than 1200 survivors of the burnt out troopship Empire…

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Fire in park delays traffic

The Sun · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 28

Traffic in Anzac Pde., Moore Park, was delayed 20 minutes today while firemen fought a blaze…

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Two Soldiers Burnt In Tunnel Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 1

PERTH, Wednesday.— Two soldiers of the Regular Army were trapped by fire and severely burnt in a…

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Woman's Brave Fire Rescues

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--A daring young mother and firemen rescued two terrified women and five young children from a blazing two-storey tenement house at Fitzroy today…

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Woman's Brave Fire Rescues

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thurs. --A daring young mother and a fireman rescued two terrified women and five young children from a blazing two-storey tenement house at Fitzroy today…

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Woman's Brave Fire Rescues

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thurs. --A daring young mother and firemen rescued two terrified women and five young children from a blazing two-storey tenement house at Fitzroy today…

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Woman's Brave Fire Rescues

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thurs. --A daring young mother and firemen rescued two terrified women and five young children from a blazing two-storey tenement house at Fitzroy today…

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Admiralty Rules Out Sabotage Ship fire, caused by explosion

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 7

LONDON, Thurs. (D.M.W.C.). - Admiralty experts have overruled sabotage as the…

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Admiralty Rules Out Sabotage Ship fire caused by explosion

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 7

LONDON, Thurs. (D.M.W.C.). --Admiralty experts have overruled sabotage as the…

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Admiralty Rules Out Sabotage Ship fire caused by explosion

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 7

LONDON, Thurs. (D.M.W.C.). -- Admiralty experts have overruled sabotage as the…

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Riots Raged As British Seamen Rushed to Save a Burning Port Horrors of the Great Hamburg Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 23

PANIC and bloodshed stalked the blazing streets or the German port of Hamburg on May 6, 1842. Nearly one- third of the great city was in flames in the most terrible Conflagration since the Great Fire of…

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Fire threat

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- A bushfire which razed two homes at Belgrave, in the Dandenong…

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Fire threat

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- A bushfire which razed two homes at Belgrave, in the Dandenong…

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