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Researchers at the University of Western Australia have developed a new touchscreen device designed to help firefighters in the field accurately predict bushfire behaviour.
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The cost of bushfires to NSW and the ACT is likely to more than double by 2050, a Climate Council report finds.
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| UpdatedA Moonah man is facing attempted murder and arson charges after a $2 million fire destroyed the Peacock mental health facility in North Hobart.
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| UpdatedA Latrobe Valley firefighter calls for an upgrade to air monitoring equipment during Victorian mine fires, after touring mines in the US and Canada.
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| UpdatedA fire destroys a Launceston City Council building in Invermay overnight, causing about $500,000 worth of damage.
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| UpdatedFour people, including a four-year-old boy, are taken to hospital after making a dramatic escape from their burning Ashfield flat, while a separate fire in Fairfield engulfs up to six businesses.
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| UpdatedCattle giant Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is one of many northern cattle producers cashing in on carbon credits through the Emissions Reductions Fund.
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Authorities open a criminal investigation into a blaze that ripped through a warehouse dance party in California, killing at least 36 people.
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At least 11 people were killed and 30 others injured, including Pakistani cricket players, as a fire tore through a Karachi hotel.
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| UpdatedA massive fire in a Pakistani hotel kills at least 11 people and leaves more than 50 people, including a Pakistani cricket player, injured.
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| UpdatedTasmania Fire Service creates a story map to engage youth in the 1967 bushfires that killed 62 people.
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| UpdatedRecovery teams have found 33 bodies in the charred ruins of an Oakland, California warehouse after a fire broke out during a weekend dance party, authorities say.
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The converted warehouse where a deadly fire ripped through a late-night dance party is known as the "Ghost ship", and is an artist workspace and illegal home for a rotating cast of residents, those who lived there or visited often say.
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Two buses from the long-term car park at Sydney Airport are gutted by fire after appearing to overheat, local authorities say, but nobody was on board at the time.
Topics: fires, accidents, sydney-airport-2020, sydney-2000