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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 79 of 125

Fire Bid Alleged

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 4

A 17-years-oId laborer, after starting a lire at the Charlton Boys' Home, Glebe, on Friday, gave…

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Fire Bid Alleged

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 5

A 17-years-old laborer, after starting a fire at the Charlton Boys' Home, Glebe, on Friday, gave…

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Six Escape Fire in Nightwear

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 14

A family of six escaped only in their night attire when fire destroyed a sevenroom fibro cottage in…

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Prison Rioters Start £446,000 Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 3

OTTAWA, Aug. 16 (A.A.P.).—Rioting convicts at Kingston Penitentiary to-day started fires which swept through nearly half the huge prison and caused damage estimated at more than a million dollars (£446,000). No one suffered more…

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Fire at Factory

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 17

A fire broke out in the ; factory of Rofo Electrical Products, Sydenham Rd., I Sydenham. early this…

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Fire at Factory

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 17

A fire broke out in the factory of Rofo Electrical Products, Sydenham Rd., Sydenham, early this…

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Fire at Factory

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 17

A fire broke out in the factory of Rofo Electrical Products, Sydenham Rd., Sydenham, early this…

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Fire at Factory

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 17

A fire broke out in the factory of Rofo Electrical Products, Sydenham Rd., Sydenham, early this…

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Fire at Factory

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 17

A fire broke out in the factory of Rofo Electrical Products, Sydenham Rd., Sydeftham, early this…

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Petrov Probe Another Reichstag Fire Evatt on Antilabor Frame-up

Tribune · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 1

A thinly-veiled allegation that the Menzies Government was using the Petrov affair for a monstrous frame-up against the Labor Movement was made in Canberra last Thursday by the leader of the…

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Fire Guts 80 Houses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 August 1954 · page 4

TOKIO, Wed.--Police have announced that 468 people are homeless as a result of a fire on Sunday…

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1M. Dollar Stockyard Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 August 1954 · page 5

MONTREAL, Wed. -- A fire in a Point St. Charles stockyard, the second in four months, today…

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Death Caused by Bed Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 August 1954 · page 7

Stuart Gregory Donovan, 43, of Wade Street, Camperdown, had died from burns and asphyxiation caused by a…

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Vienna's Alarm Dread of oil fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 14

VIENNA, Fri. (Kemsley). -- With growing alarm the citizens of Vienna watch anxiously as month by month the tall menacing forest of oil derricks…

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Vienna's Alarm Dread of oil fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 14

VIENNA, Fri. (Kemsley). -- With growing alarm the citizens of Vienna watch anxiously as month by month the tall menacing forest of oil derricks…

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Vienna's Alarm Dread of oil fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 14

VIENNA, Fri. (Kemsley). -- With growing alarm the citizens of Vienna watch anxiously as month by month the tall menacing forest of oil derricks…

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Fire on Film Set

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 3

ROME, Fri. (A.P.).--Fire yesterday destroyed a two-acre set erected for the multi-million…

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Fire on Film Set

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 13

ROME, Fri. (A.P.).--Fire yesterday destroyed two-acre set erected or the multi-million…

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Fire on Film Set

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 3

ROME, Fri. (A.P.).--Fire yesterday destroyed a two-acre set erected for the multi-million…

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Fire damage at beach resort

The Sun · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 22

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Damage estimated at £500 was caused by fire which broke out in the pantry at…

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