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Victorians await bushfire-safe areas
Victoria :: Canada | about 11 hours ago
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The NSW government decided to adopt the recommendation from the August report and has identified 313 neighbourhood safer places in 61 of 153 local government areas. Five are in the high-risk Blue Mountains area and work is continuing to identify more...
Tags: safer places, neighbourhood safer, Municipal Association of Victoria, local government, fire danger, Canada, Victoria, Environment, Bushfires in Australia, Dandenong Ranges, Wildfires, Bushfire, Country Fire Authority, Black Saturday bushfires, Australia
Victoria marks Black Saturday a year on
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility The Victorian government will hold a low key commemoration in Melbourne for city people who wish to mark the anniversary on February 7, the Herald Sun newspaper says. Premier John Brumby is expected to request that flags on all government buildings be...
Tags: AM Victorians, Australia, Sydney, Wildfires, Bushfire, Black Saturday bushfires, Politics, Kinglake Victoria, Half-staff, Christine Nixon, Disaster Accident
NSW firies take advantage of cool change
Torrington :: CT :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) says it hopes expected rain and a drop in temperatures on Monday night will allow firefighters to extinguish the fires that have been burning for about two weeks. "There is a lot of work to do, but we will have hundreds...
Tags: Torrington, Environment, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Firefighter, Disaster Accident, Bushfires in Australia, Wildfires, Bushfire, Wildland fire suppression, Weather, Fire, Pulletop bushfire, Tenterfield New South Wales
Memorial of little miracles and essential stories
Melbourne :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Curator Liza Dale-Hallett stands beside the rebuilt chimney at the Melbourne Museum...A century ago its hearth warmed a prosperous country house, the Uplands, and according to Helen Drayton, the granddaughter of its former owner, it was the focal point...
Tags: Melbourne Museum, Museum Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, Bushfires in Australia, Wildfires, Bushfire, Black Saturday bushfires, Kinglake Victoria
Sixty fires still burning across NSW
Newcastle :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) said the blaze of most concern was south of Newcastle in the Lake Macquarie area. Blazes are also burning in the Narrabri, Lithgow and Glen Innes areas and firefighters are continuing to work on these fires on Sunday.
Tags: NSW Rural Fire Service, Lithgow, macquarie area, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Australia, Bushfires in Australia, Environment, Bushfire, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Disaster Accident, Wildfires, Fire, Firefighter, 2006-07 Australian bushfire season, 2008￢ﾀﾓ09 Australian bushfire season, Killingworth, Black Saturday bushfires, Warragamba bushfires
Cooler temps to help NSW firefighters
Sydney :: Australia | 4 days ago
Credibility NSW Rural Fire Service spokeswoman Rebel Talbert said a new fire had broken out near Killingworth, north of Lake Macquarie, on Saturday. "That's expected to impact a couple of remote rural properties in the next few hours," Ms Talbert told AAP on Saturday...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Bushfires in Australia, Environment, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Wildfires, Weather, Bushfire, Firefighter, Fire, Disaster Accident, Ash Wednesday fires, Ember attack, 2008￢ﾀﾓ09 Australian bushfire season, Wildland fire suppression
Over 100 fire fighters 'at risk' in Black Saturday burnovers
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility The Bushfires Royal Commission has been told that 105 fire fighters were at risk from the 19 different incidents. A burnover is usually when flames surround a fire truck and fire crews take refuge in the tanker, using water spray as a protective umbrella.
Tags: The Bushfires Royal Commission, Australia, Sydney, Black Saturday bushfires, Country Fire Authority, Firefighter, Wildfires, Bushfire, Kinglake Victoria, Disaster Accident
Sydney doctor charged with drug offences
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility The 41-year-old doctor was charged on Wednesday night with supplying an indictable quantity of a prohibited drug. "The charge relates to the death of a 22-year-old woman, whose body was found at an address in Elizabeth Bay on Saturday," police said in...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Law Crime, Bail, Social Issues, Criminal law, Bushfires in Australia, Yesterday, Bushfire, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Crimes, Assault, Airds New South Wales, Education, Wildfires, Fire, Milsons Point New South Wales, Doctor
False warning posted on bushfire website
Melbourne :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility The false alarm, published on Wednesday on the website, jointly managed by the Country Fire Authority and the Department of Sustainability and Environment, remained visible for 26 minutes, The Age newspaper said. A copy of the warning, obtained by The...
Tags: Australia, Melbourne, Bushfire, Wildfires, Fire, Disaster Accident, Environment, Bushfires in Australia, The Warning, Country Fire Authority
Police arrest two teens over grass fire
Sydney :: Australia | 7 days ago
Credibility Monday, police said. "The fire began after a number of brochures were set on fire," police said in a statement on Tuesday. "Police received information that two boys were seen running through a grass reserve towards Napier Street. "Two boys, aged 14 and...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Wildfires, Disaster Accident, Bushfires in Australia, Bushfire, Fire
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