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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 125

Police Claim Fire Deliberate

The Sun · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 20

LISMORE, Wednesday.--A detective alleged today that a woman set fire to a house rather…

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U.s.a. Rapid-fire Home-building

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 10

U.S.A. workmen never waste time. For instance, a housing project in which 300 houses were being constructed. An…

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'Fire one' and the torpedo left with a swoosh

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 37

In this second of two articles on Australia's anti-submarine defences Boyd…

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Bush blaze near homes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 43

A large bushfire on the Collaroy Plateau this afternoon menaced three weatherboard cottages…

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Bush blaze near homes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 43

A large bushfire on the Collaroy Plateau this afternoon menaced three weatherboard cottages…

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Bush blaze near homes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 2

A large bushfire on the Collaroy Plateau this afternoon menaced three weatherboard cottages…

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Thieves Set Fire to Store

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 1

Thieves early today made a deliberate attempt to burn down the general carrying store of…

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Thieves Set Fire to Store

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 1

Thieves early today made a deliberate attempt to burn down the general carrying store of…

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Thieves set fire to carrying store

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 7

Thieves early today made a deliberate attempt to burn down the general carrying story of Mayne Nickless Ltd., Mallet St., Camperdown…

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Thieves set fire to carrying store

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 7

Thieves early today made a deliberate attempt to burn down the general carrying story of Mayne Nickless Ltd., Mallet St., Camperdown…

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Thieves set fire to carrying store

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 7

Thieves early today made a deliberate attempt to burn down the general carrying story of Mayne Nickless Ltd., Mallet St., Camperdown…

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Thieves set fire to carrying store

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 7

Thieves early today made a deliberate attempt to burn down the general carrying story of Mayne Nickless Ltd., Mallet St., Camperdown…

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Bed On Fire: Death Of Chain Smoker

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 9

A woman who was chain-smoker had fallen asleep with a cigarette in her mouth and had been…

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Extension of fire protection urged

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Fri.--The general president of the Fire Brigade Employees' Union (Mr. H. Evans) last night stressed the need for more fire protection for Newcastle. Mr. Evans was…

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Extension of fire protection urged

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Fri.--The general president of the Fire Brigade Employees' Union (Mr. H. Evans) last night stressed the need for more fire protection for Newcastle. Mr. Evans was…

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Extension of fire protection urged

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Fri.--The general president of the Fire Brigade Employees' Union (Mr. H. Evans) last night stressed the need for more fire protection for Newcastle. Mr. Evans was…

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Cripple dies in blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 July 1954 · page 11

An elderly cripple was burned to death in a shack at Green Valley, near Liverpool, early yesterday…

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Pensioner's Death In Shed Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 July 1954 · page 16

A 76-year-old pensioner was burnt to death yesterday when a shed in which he lived caught fire at Green…

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Baby saved in blaze Slept While Pram Burned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 July 1954 · page 1

A man snatched his sleeping three - months - old baby from a blazing pram in a fiercely burning cottage at Miranda, near…

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Baby saved from blaze Heater Sets Pram Alight

The Sun · Saturday 3 July 1954 · page 2

A man last night rescued his three-month-old daughter from a blazing pram as fire destroyed the kitchen of his Carlingford home…

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