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Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 125

Kirribilli's Great Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 7

THE LAST harbour-side sears of a great Sydney fire in 1921 Jiave been disappearing in the past few weeks. LIKE a gap-toothed child who has acquired its…

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Fire Damages Tenement Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 3

Hundreds of people in night attire early to-day watched firemen fight a fire in Surrey Street,…

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Seven Miners Die in Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 1

LONDON, May 16 (A.A.P.) —Seven Belgian miners died in a coalmine fire near Mons yesterday…

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Boy of 3 thrown from fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 3

A man last night threw his three-year-old son from the first floor of a…

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Wharf blaze halted

The Sun · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 7

Prompt action by wharfies last night prevented damage to thousands of pound…

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Sailors dragged from car blaze

The Sun · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Four naval ratings from Flinders Naval Depot were dragged…

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Police probe on big blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

Arson Squad detectives are investigating the cause of a fire at Pyrmont wharf…

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Police probe on big blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

Arson Squad detectives are investigating the cause of a fire at Pyrmont wharf…

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Police probe on big blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 17

Arson Squad defectives are investigating the cause of a fire at Pyrmont wharf…

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Police probe on big blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

Arson Squad detectives are investigating the cause of a fire at Pyrmont wharf…

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Labor plan under fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 31

Finance to the States would be seriously reduced under a Labor Government, the Navy and…

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Weatherboard House on Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

Firemen from Dee Why, Manly, and Crow's Nest brigades went to a fire in a small weatherboard…

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Labor plan under fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 31

Finance to the States would be seriously reduced under a Labor Government, the Navy and…

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Weatherboard House on Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

Firemen from Dee Why, Manly, and Crow's Nest brigades went to a fire in a small weatherboard…

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Labor plan under fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 29

Finance to the States would be seriously reduced under a Labor Government, the Navy and…

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Weatherboard House on Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

Firemen from Dee Why, Manly, and Crow's Nest brigades went to a fire in a small weatherboard…

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Labor plan under fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 31

Finance to the States would be seriously reduced under a Labor Government, the Navy and…

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Wharf Fire Damages Cotton Stacks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

Fire last night damaged 100 bales of cotton valued at £7,000 on a wharf at Pyrmont…

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Dash for life from fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

Several families fled for their lives today when a three-storey block of flats caught…

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Families flee from flat fire

The Sun · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 3

A fire which swept through a top-storey block of flats at Bondi today made homeless…

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