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On Saturday, Jan. 18 at around 7:45 a.m. local time, police and emergency services were called to a home in the Brisbane suburb of Kingston, where a woman was found with "burns to her body," an ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Five boys and their father were killed after fire ripped through a house in Australia's Queensland state early on Sunday, police said. The man's wife, mother of the boys, escaped ...
Locals in Queensland were lamenting the heavy toll to wildlife caused by a bushfire on Bribie Island on August 21 and 22, after photos were published showing dead kangaroos strewn along a beach ...
Following the crash the truck caught fire and the driver was pulled from the truck by bystanders. Ammonium nitrate leaked onto the Bruce Highway, a major highway in Queensland. [5] First responders ordered an evacuation of a 2.5 kilometre radius of the crash, [3] and decided to not extinguish the fire because of the inherent risk. [5]
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, visited fire-affected residents sheltering in refuge centres in Dalby, and paid tribute to firefighters and communities stating; 'I want to thank once again all of those involved in helping our communities including interstate and New Zealand fire crews giving our own firefighters a much-needed break ...
The Christies Fire started in Queensland where it impacted Wallangarra, destroying four homes. The fire then rapidly spread over the border into New South Wales and impacted the township of Jennings. [33] Overnight an RFS truck crashed ten kilometres south of Jennings, trapping two firefighters in the wreckage and resulting in three ...
The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, [a] or Black Summer, was one of the most intense and catastrophic fire seasons on record in Australia.It included a period of bushfires in many parts of Australia, which, due to its unusual intensity, size, duration, and uncontrollable dimension, was considered a megafire by media at the time.
The fire burnt out 18,000 hectares, destroyed six homes and five buildings. Around 200 head of livestock were lost. [2] [3] On March 16, a vehicle driving through long grass sparked the Curraweela Bushfire north of Crookwell in the Southern Tablelands. The fire burnt over 4,400 hectares, destroyed one home and 17 buildings.