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The South Australian Country Fire Service (SACFS, commonly abbreviated as CFS) is a volunteer based fire service in the Australian state of South Australia. The CFS has responsibility as the Control Agency for firefighting, rescues and hazardous materials and inland waterways in the country regions of South Australia. Its official mission is ...
South Australian Storms (2022) - A series of significant storms impacted South Australia in late November 2022, resulting in mass power outages and significant flash flooding and storm damage. The suburbs of Flagstaff Hill, Blackwood, Coromandel Valley and Eden Hills where hit the hardest and subsequently generated over 1000 requests for ...
This is a list of major bushfires in Australia. The list contains individual bushfires and bushfire seasons that have resulted in fatalities, or bushfires that have burned in excess of 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres), or was significant for its damage to particular Australian landmarks.
As of 11:20 pm ACDT there were 63 power outages affecting over 23,000 customers and over 100 incidents the South Australian Country Fire Service had attended throughout the day. This comes after the first Total Fire Bans were issued for South Australia for the first time in the 2020–21 Australian bushfire season. [23]
The fire began in a semi rural area to the north east of the city, in the locality of Sampson Flat.It later travelled southeast towards the Kersbrook township and across the Mount Lofty Ranges.As of 6 January 2015, at least 26 houses were destroyed with 37 families in temporary accommodation. [3]
Pages in category "South Australian Country Fire Service" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Eyre Peninsula bushfire of 2005, an event also known locally as Black Tuesday [2] and by South Australian Government agencies as the Wangary bushfire, [3] was a bushfire that occurred during January 2005 on the lower part of the Eyre Peninsula, a significant part of South Australia's wheat belt, where most of the land is either cropped or grazed. [4]
Internationally, southern Australia and particularly the State of Victoria combined with the adjacent States of New South Wales (NSW), South Australia together with the island State of Tasmania, is commonly regarded one of the three landscapes on Earth most prone to damaging bushfires. The other two are southern California and the Mediterranean ...