The explosion sounded like a bomb going off in the dead of night. As their walls shook from the blast,neighbours called emergency services and ran out of their homes.
A fire engulfed a home at Sydenham at Melbourne’s north-west on Sunday,September 8,leaving three children aged under five with life-threatening injuries. Credit:Supplied
The fire started at a marine engineering warehouse in O’Connor just after 3.30pm on Saturday.
The deaths of 72 people in the fire in June 2017 were “all avoidable”,the chairman of the inquiry into the disaster has said.
The blaze in Sydney Harbour has threatened the historic SS South Steyne,a former Manly ferry.
Fire and rescue crews were called to Berrys Bay where a derelict boat was alight near the SS South Steyne,on which Queen Elizabeth II took a cruise in 1988.
The large Renaissance building on the Thames is home to 100 art,business and social enterprises.
Sydney Morning Herald chief photographer Nick Moir has joined NSW RFS members and thousands of firefighters from across the US who are attempting to slow the destructive progress of the raging California Fire Park fires.
At the site where an Allied landing was beaten back by Ottoman troops in 1915,the flames reached Canterbury Cemetery,where 22 soldiers from New Zealand are interred.
Angry residents say EPA and the state government are ignoring the damage that frequent toxic blazes are causing.
Northcote man Frank Catena risked his life by entering a burning house