The Age photographed the Nash family in 2009 after the fire destroyed all of their possessions bar the clothes line and a cubby house. We revisited them as The Age turns 170,and they say they can get through anything.
One type of injury suffered by police and firefighters leapt by 50 per cent during the Black Saturday and Black Summer bushfire disasters.
Victoria’s Environment Department is looking to make 208 people redundant in its bushfire and forest services group,including 118 in forest fire operations.
As The Age celebrates 170 years,we look back on some of the most notable major events featuring on our front pages over the decades.
Have we learnt all the lessons from our 2020 Black Summer disaster? Last weekend’s blaze suggests that we haven’t.
The CFA rejected the medical opinions of six experts and cut compensation to a traumatised firefighter based on the assessment of one dissenting psychiatrist.
Brendan Sokaluk,a former Country Fire Authority volunteer,was freed on Tuesday after serving 15 years for deliberately lighting a blaze in the Latrobe Valley.
Forecast extreme heat,high winds and dry lightning mean Wednesday will be “a very dangerous and difficult day across Victoria”,Premier Jacinta Allan said.
The Bushfire Building Council of Australia has developed free architectural-designed plans to protect your house. Just lock up and leave,the house will look after itself.
The lack of meaningful emissions-reduction targets by both major parties indicates that future generations will be locked into climate warming above 1.5 degrees.
In a rapidly warming climate,the recent welcome,replenishing rains are a double-edged sword. What grows fast can also easily,and quickly,dry out then burn.