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Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 125

147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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Boofhead No Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 25

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Fire Damages Paint Shed

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 2

Fire in a paint storage shed of the Clyde Wagon Works, Auburn, last night caused severe damage…

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Fire Damages Paint Shed

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 2

Fire in a paint storage hed of the Clyde Wagon Vorks, Auburn, last night aused severe damage…

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Fire Damages Paint Shed

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 2

Fire in a paint storage shed of the Clyde Wagon Works, Auburn, last night caused severe damage…

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Fire Damages Paint Shed

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 2

Fire in a paint storage shed of the Clyde Wagon Works, Auburn; last-night caused severe damage…

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Fire in rail siding shed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 14

A fire at Clyde railway station last night damaged a shed containing paint, oil, and other inflammable…

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Explosives Factory Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 April 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday. —Detectives and firemen have been asked to investigate a spectacular fire which…

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Fire at Explosive Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 April 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sat.--entry to explosive works at Deer Park for more Firemen were refused…

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Fire Danger In Warringah Shire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 April 1954 · page 14

The secretary of the bushfire committee, Mr. A. R. McFarland, said last night the bushfire danger period for the…

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