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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 125

Fire Probe

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 3

BUFFALO, Mon. (U.P.) --A grand jury investigation has been ordered of a school fire in which 14…

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Fire Deaths

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 2

PUSAN, Mon. (B.U.P.).-- Forty Koreans were killed when fire swept through the squalid, refugee packed…

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Fire Deaths

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

PUSAN, Mon. (B.U.P.).-- Forty Koreans were killed when fire swept through the squalid, refugee packed…

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Fire Deaths

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 2

PUSAN, Mon. (B.U.P.).-- Forty Koreans were killed when fire swept through the squalid, refugee packed…

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Mercy plane after fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.--Four seriously burned survivors Of the fire which killed five men a Cunnamulla hotel yesterday are today receiving blood transfusions in a Brisbane…

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Remanded on fire charges

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 4

A man who appeared at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today on three charges of, arson was…

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Remanded on fire changes

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 4

A man who appeared at Parramatta Quarter" Sessions today on three charges of arson was…

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Remanded on fire charges

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 4

A man who appeared at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today on three charges of arson was…

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Remanded on fire charges

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 4

A man who appeared at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today on three charges of arson was…

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Mercy plane after fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.--Four seriously burned survivors of the fire which killed five men in a Cunnamulla hotel yesterday are today receiving blood transfusions in a Brisbane…

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Mercy plane after fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.--Four seriously burned survivors of the fire which killed five men in a Cunnamulla hotel yesterday are today receiving blood transfusions in a Brisbane…

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Ship fire "began in Japan"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 5

LONDON, Sun.--Fire which destroyed a British troopship allegedly began before…

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Five Killed in Big Hotel Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

Five people died yesterday in an explosion and fire at a Cunnamulla hotel…

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Transfusion for Fire Victim

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

Four men severely burnt in Sunday's fire at the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla, were flown to Brisbane on Sunday night tor medical treatment. Here Dr. R. Simpson, of Charleville, administers serum during the flight to Brisbane to a critically injured victim…

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Test Tactics Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 39

LONDON, Tues. (Extel). --Negative leg-stump tactics employed by English pace bowler, Trevor…

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Exploding Gas Is Fire Theory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.—Police, insurance company officials, and refrigeration experts agree that, the most likely cause of the tragic hotel fire at unnamulla yesterday was…

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No More Bodies in Fire Ruins

The Sun · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday. -- Police who raked over the ruins of the Commercial Hotel…

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Appeal On £45,000 Bushfires Verdict

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 7

The Full Court yesterday began hearing an appeal by the Commissioner for Railways against an award of…

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Fire Aboard Battleship

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 3

LONDON, April 6 (A.A.P.). —A small fire broke out yesterday in the Vanguard, 42,000-ton flagship of the…

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Fire Failed to Spoil Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 7

Five hundred people last night sat through a film while 30 firemen fought a fire in the building. The fire was in the…

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