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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 125

Vic. braced for fire perit Danger Grows As Heatwave Continues

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --Hundreds of volunteer fire fighters are on call as Victoria faces one of its gravest bush fire perils…

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Vic. braced for fire peril Danger Grows As Heatwave Continues

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Hundreds of volunteer fire fighters are on calf as Victoria faces one of its gravest hush fire perils…

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Vic. braced for fire peril Danger Grows As Heatwave Continues

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Hundreds of volunteer fire fighters are on call,as Victoria faces one of its gravest bush fire perils…

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Vic. braced for fire peril Heatwave Ss Grave Threat to State

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --Hundreds of volunteer fire fighters ore on call as Victoria faces one of its gravest hush fire perils…

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Vic. braced for fire peril Heatwave Is Grave Threat to State

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Hundreds of volunteer fire fighters care on coll. ess Victoria faces one of its gravest bush fire perils…

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20,000 threatened by bushfires Patrol's Urgent S.O.S. for Pumps

The Sun · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The whole of the Mount Dandenong area, which has a population of 20,000, is in danger of being razed by bushfires…

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Warning on bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 3

The Weather Bureau last night warned that hot weather today would bring very high bushfire danger…

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2 fires follow cash demand

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 1

Two mysterious fires last night followed a threat yesterday afternoon to burn down the Granville Hotel. Both fires broke out in the goods yard of Granville…

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Granville Fire Bug Hunt

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 3

Arson Squad detectives are investigating two fires on railway property at Granville…

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Caller Threatens to Burn Hotel Two fires started at Granville

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 4

A man telephoned the Granville Hotel licensee yesterday and told him the hotel would be burned down if he did not "cough up" £200. Later, two fires were…

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Sealed Off Mine Fire Flares Up

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 2

LITHGOW, Saturday. —Squads of volunteers are working in terrific heat 300 feet below the…

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Migrant Risks Life to Save Sheep From Fire

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Saturday.—A German migrant saved a flock of sheep by forcing it through a wall of flames today. He then climbed into a 1000-galion water tank to save himself. He held his horse beside…

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Underground fight to seal State colliery fire Dramatic Appeal for Help

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 13

LITHGOW, Sat.--Volunteers are working in terrific heat 300 feet beneath the earth's surface in a desperate attempt to halt a fire in the State coalmine…

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Blaze Damages Buildings, Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 22

A fire which began in the laundry of a house in Mawson St., Punchbowl, this morning spread to the…

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Blaze Damages Buildings, Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 22

A fire which began in the laundry of a house in Mawson St., Punchbowl, this morning spread to the…

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Blaze Damages Buildings, Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 22

A fire which began in the laundry of a house in Mawson St., Punchbowl, this morning spread to the…

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Blaze Damages Buildings, Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 22

A fire which began in the laundry of, a house in Mawson St.", Punchbowl, this morning spread to the…

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Blaze Damages Buildings, Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 22

A fire which began in the laundry of a house in Mawson St., Punchbowl, this morning spread to the…

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Blaze Damages Buildings, Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 22

A fire which began in the laundry of a house in Mawson St., Punchbowl, this morning spread to the…

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Anti-fire Exhibition

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 30

Fire-fighting equipment more than 120 years old will be displayed at an exhibition in David Jones'…

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