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Victoria mops up, NSW on fire alert
Victoria :: Canada | about 4 hours ago
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Temperatures hit 38 degrees before a cool change brought high winds which caused havoc on the roads across the state. More than 20 traffic lights went down across Melbourne and some 15,000 households in the city's outer west and parts of regional Victoria...
Tags: Victoria, Canada, Black Saturday bushfires, Bushfire, Blue Mountains, 2006-07 Australian bushfire season, 1925-26 Victorian bushfire season, Bushfires in Australia, Wildfires, Australia, Disaster Accident, Environment, Weather, Firefighter, Bilpin New South Wales, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Wildland fire suppression, Fire
Massive jobs cuts for park firefighters
Brisbane :: Australia | about 5 hours ago
Credibility Among those handed packages were fire management officers who worked on strategies for combating bushfires, oversee hazard reduction burns and helped to physically fight large blazes. The Government yesterday denied that any frontline workers would be...
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Voluntary redundancy, National parks of England and Wales, Environment, Wildfires, Bushfire, Fire, Bushfires in Australia, Disaster Accident
Del Paso Heights apartment damaged by fire
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | about 5 hours ago
Credibility Fire damaged a Del Paso Heights apartment Thursday evening, according to authorities. No residents of the North Avenue complex were injured in the 5 p.m. blaze, said Sacramento fire Capt...One firefighter, however, might have suffered a fractured arm...
Tags: Jim Doucette, Sacramento, Fire, Disaster Accident
Torch’s Nova Scotia tour continues past historic Halifax Citadel
Halifax :: Canada | about 11 hours ago
Credibility When Meg Fraser wrapped her red-mitt-covered hands around the Olympic torch in Halifax on Friday, she knew it was something special. “I felt like I was the only person in the world doing the most important thing right now,” Fraser said after her run...
Tags: Nova Scotia, Meg Fraser, Halifax Citadel, Canada, Halifax, Fraser, Acadia University, Thing, The Marina Torch, Fire, Olympic Flame, Wolfville Nova Scotia, Torch, Halifax Harbour, Halifax Nova Scotia railway station, Transportation in the Halifax Regional Municipality
Dress rehearsal over, now the real deal
Adelaide :: Australia | about 14 hours ago
Credibility CFS state co-ordinator Rob Sandford said the new "catastrophic" rating achieved its aim, further raising awareness in communities at risk of serious bushfires. "Whilst it generated a lot of debate in the community, we think that's a good thing because...
Tags: Australia, Adelaide, Country Fire Service, Wildfires, Bushfire, Fire, Disaster Accident
Spontaneous combustion leads to McKinleyville fire
Eureka :: CA :: USA | about 16 hours ago
Credibility The Arcata Fire Protection District responded to a report of a fire at 1217 Railroad Ave...When fire crews arrived, heavy fire was coming from the front and side windows of the end apartment and rear door in the multi-unit apartment complex, according...
Tags: McKinleyville, Arcata Fire Protection District, spontaneous combusted, press release, Eureka, Arcata Transit Center, Smoke, Arcata California, Fire, Human Interest, Humboldt County California, McKinleyville California, Firefighter, Disaster Accident
Assistance in response to NSW bushfires
Sydney :: Australia | about 17 hours ago
Credibility The Attorney-General has approved the request. "Bankstown Airport has been deemed unsuitable due to the large amount of aviation traffic and distance from the fire grounds, so the Australian Government is happy to assist in any way we can," Mr McClelland...
Tags: New South Wales, nsw bushfire, NSW, Australia, Sydney, Fire, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Robert McClelland (Australian politician), Responses to the Black Saturday bushfire crisis, Country Fire Authority, Bushfires in Australia, Wildfires, Bushfire, Disaster Accident, Politics, Environment
Electric Six Neurolux Nov. 15
Boise :: ID :: USA | about 18 hours ago
Credibility Nobody blurs the difference between stupid and smart more carefully than Detroit dance-rockers the Electric Six. Just when you realize that 90 percent of swaggering singer Dick Valentine's lyrics are utterly nonsensical, he goes that extra silly mile...
Tags: Electric Six Neurolux, Electric Six � Neurolux, Dick Valentine, Boise, Valentine's Day, Valentine, Fire, Slasher films, Electric Six, Gay Bar, Entertainment Culture
ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 19 hours ago
Credibility Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history...Even as more people move into fire-prone wildlands...
Tags: area burns, higher temperatures, climate change, degrees celsius, temperatures rise, Washington, Wildfire, Fire, Black Saturday bushfires, Controlled burn, Drought, Wildland fire suppression, Ecological succession, Occupational safety and health, Environment, Disaster Accident
Brakes put on Victorian fire bunkers
Sydney :: Australia | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Last week the Victorian Government introduced fire bunker interim safety guidelines until new national safety standards are in place next year. Victorian members that they refuse to approve many of the permits...We're not actually criticising the Victorian...
Tags: bushfire shelter, fire bunkers, interim measures, AIBS, Australia, Sydney, Fire, Wildfires, Bunker, Building code, Fire door, Fortification, Construction, Bushfire, Disaster Accident
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