DFES have downgraded a bushfire warning for Perth’s northern suburbs – but residents have been told to stay updated in case conditions change.
Victoria’s fire service has been responding to almost one fire each day caused by lithium-ion batteries. Firefighters fear the trend will worsen.
A man suffered life-threatening burns in a Brisbane blaze overnight,while a crime scene was declared after a Toowoomba fire.
Flights resumed a day after a fire knocked out power and shut Europe’s busiest airport,causing global travel chaos.
The fire at a nearby substation forced the world’s fifth-busiest airport to close for the day,disrupting hundreds of thousands of passengers as airlines cancelled or diverted flights.
Musicians performing on stage were among the 59 people killed when a pyrotechnic display went wrong in a packed nightclub in North Macedonia.
More than 100 guests were standing by the roadside in the dark for at least an hour after the fire broke out.
Of the 964 fire safety inspections Victorian councils did at multi-storey apartments in 12 months,only 127 buildings continued to comply.
Neighbours say a woman managed to escape the fire before going back to save her child,with the pair becoming trapped in the burning house.
A woman who died trapped in a burning home became the first civilian fatality in the gangland war over control of Melbourne’s illicit tobacco trade.