‘Within five-to-ten minutes … all the glass was popping and the side of the building was up in flames.’
One person is unaccounted for after a fire spread through multiple buildings in Woolloongabba,including a heritage-listed building booked out for weddings.
Marshall asked staff at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade to gather sensitive information for him,and the union exerted unprecedented influence over the running of the fire service,report finds.
Sydney’s northern beaches are having another smoky day as firefighters battle to keep a wild hazard reduction burn under control.
The Rural Fire Service has lowered the alert level for the blaze which began as a hazard reduction burn in Oxford Falls.
More than 25 firetrucks and 100 firefighters worked to control the blaze that badly damaged several businesses.
Firefighters are battling a factory fire in Sydney’s southwest that has forced employees in nearby businesses to flee their workplaces.
Police are investigating whether the mother was home at the time of the fire,and a social worker says the father flagged concerns in the months before the fatal blaze at the Sydenham house.
Wildfires destroying vast areas of the Kimberley have been drastically reduced by Indigenous fire management – and other savannah-rich countries are taking note.
New early detection and rapid bushfire suppression tech is being rolled out across the world and along Australia’s east coast. But it seems WA must wait a while.
Arson squad detectives are investigating whether a toddler and two other children were home alone when explosions and a huge fire engulfed a house in Melbourne’s north-west.