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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 73 of 125

Boy's Bid To Put Out Fire

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 1 August 1954 · page 3

A five-year-old boy yesterday tried to beat out a fire with a pair of shoes in the kitchenette of his parents' home in Darvall Street, Balmain…

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Reds, Fire on Press Plane

The Sun · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 10

NEW YORK, Sunday.--Communist border guards today fired on a plane carrying…

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Pure Fire in Cup Demand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- There was considerable Caulfield Cup support for Pure Fire in Melbourne…

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Pure Fire in Cup Demand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- There was considerable Caulfield Cup support for Pure Fire in Melbourne…

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Pure Fire in Cup Demand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- There was considerable Caulfield Cup support for Pure Fire in Melbourne…

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Pure Fire in Cup Demand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Tues. --There was considerable Caulfield Cup support for Pure. Fire in Melbourne…

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Pure Fire in Cup Demand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Tues. --There was considerable Caulfield Cup support for Pure Fire in Melbourne…

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Pure Fire in Cup Demand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- There was considerable Caulfield Cup support for Pure Fire in Melbourne…

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Pure Fire in Cup Demand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Tues. --There was considerable Caulfield Cup support for Pure Fire in Melbourne…

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Truck man escapes from fire

The Sun · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 5

Driver of an ice-cream truck struggled to safety from his blazing cabin after…

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South Koreans Fire Shots At Truce Team

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Aug. 2 (A.A.P.).—South Koreans have fired shots and thrown bombs at members of the…

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Stop Press Cottage Blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 40

A man battered down the back door of a blazzing weather board cottage in Jef[?]ray St., Can[?]ry today in an attempt to put out [?]…

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Spectacular Fire In Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The printing of Melbourne's new telephone directory will be delayed by…

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Fire Destroys Car and Lorry

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 7

FIRE gutted this car when a lorry (left) crashed into it in Parramatta Road yesterday…

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Young Authors' Section The Bush Fire

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 8

IT was a hot, dry day and the people living in the outback town near Carr's Creek kept to the shadows. At the bar of the Warne…

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Tarpaulin Blaze

The Sun · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 17

WELLINGTON, Thursday.--Fire destroyed a big tarpaulin factory at Wanganui, causing £50,000…

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Plane on fire

The Sun · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 5

CALCUTTA, Thursday.--Fire broke out on a Qantas Superconstellation taxi-ing to the…

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Fire Damages Maroubra Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 5

Fire last night caused about £1.500 worth of damage to a Housing Commission building Maroubra in which 12…

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Pathetic sequel to fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 5

A Maroubra couple and their five children, whose Housing Commission home was destroyed by fire last night, are shown here searching the blackened ruins for any of their possessions which might have escaped. From left are: Mrs. Jean Morrison, holding baby Terry (2), Lorraine (9), Mr. William Morrison,…

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Pathetic sequel to fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 5

A Maroubra couple and their five children, whose Housing Commission home was destroyed by fire last night, are shown here searching the blackened ruins for any of their possessions which might have escaped. From left are Mrs.'Jean Morrison, holding baby Terry (2), Lorraine (9), Mr. William Morrison,…

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