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Bushfire trauma strains mental health system
Marysville :: WA :: USA | 9 months ago
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The death toll from the Victorian bushfires has risen by seven to 208. Forty-five deaths have been reported in Marysville, 42 in Strathewen and 37 in Kinglake. Extra Lifeline counsellors, including some who were part of the 2003 Canberra bushfires recovery...
Tags: deaths toll, Marysville, Kinglake, Victorian Coroner's Office, Strathewen, toll rises, THE Victoria, Victoria Police
Australian wildfire death toll unlikely to jump
Victoria :: Canada | 9 months ago
Credibility Police planned to continue searching the rubble in the devastated village of Marysville for at least another week, Walshe said. Less extensive searches were still under way in other areas as well, he said. Identifying the remains of the victims from blazes...
Tags: deaths toll, Victoria, Kieran Walshe, bushfire deaths, deputy commissioner, toll unlikely, police deputy, Keiran Walshe
Australian bushfire death toll rises
Sydney :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility The number killed in Australia's deadliest bushfires has now reached 200. And the death toll may still rise as police in the devastated southern state of Victoria as police continue their grim search for bodies in the ash and rubble of several razed towns.
Tags: deaths toll, Australian, Victoria state, wildfire deaths, Melbourne, toll reached, vigilante groups, Brendan Sokaluk
Australia wildfire death toll reaches 200
Sydney :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility The grim milestone was passed Tuesday after investigators confirmed 11 more people had died in one of more than 400 fires that raged across southern Victoria state on Feb. 7. Morethan 1,800 homes were destroyed in the fires, which scorched more than 1,500...
Tags: South Australia, Victoria, deaths toll, southern victoria
Victorian bushfire death toll creeps higher
Melbourne :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility The death toll from Victoria's bushfires has reached 189, police say. Monday's figure is the first update given by police since the figure reached 181 last Thursday. It included 43 from the town of Marysville, which is expected to have lost 100 of its...
Tags: deaths toll, Victoria, bushfire deaths, Marysville, victorian bushfire, Kinglake Murrindindi Complex
Fires rage as death toll rises
Victoria :: Canada | 9 months ago
Credibility Most of the latest people confirmed dead were killed in the small towns of Strathewen and St Andrews, on Melbourne's bushy northeastern fringe. There are now 22 people confirmed dead at St Andrews, a town with a population of about 1500 people. Strathewen,...
Tags: northeast Victoria, Melbourne, fire authorities, control lines, Country Fire Authority, Upper Yarra Valley, St Andrews, Strathewen, deaths toll
Australian expatriates horrified by bushfires
Sydney :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility At least 170 people have been killed and dozens of rural towns have been completely destroyed in Australia's southeastern state of Victoria. Dozens of blazes have also been reported in New South Wales and South Australia, with temperatures soaring to...
Tags: Australia Australian, South Australia, Victorian, Kevin Rudd, Barack Obama, deaths toll, prime minister, minister kevin
Bushfire death toll climbs to 135
Sydney :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility February 09, 2009 09:39pm The death toll from Victoria's bushfires has risen to 135, police say. The bushfires have now claimed 35 people in the small hamlet of Kinglake. New deaths have also been reported at Flowerdale, where four people have now perished,...
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Temporary morgue to cope with toll
Healesville :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility Victoria's State Coronial Services Centre to accommodate the mounting toll of bushfire victims. Coroner Jennifer Coate said 101 victims had already been received into the facility. She said the makeshift morgue was similar to the one set up during the...
Tags: Victoria, deaths toll
Bushfire disaster 'worse than Bali'
Melbourne :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility Victoria's bushfire burns victims at Melbourne's The Alfred hospital says the magnitude of the disaster is worse than the Bali bombings. With 20 serious burns patients admitted to The Alfred in 24 hours, emergency department doctor De Villiers Smit said...
Tags: Australian Broadcasting Corp., Bali, burns victims, bali bombings, Victoria, bushfire burns, deaths toll, alfred hospitals
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