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A new aerial firefighting base in the Adelaide Hills offers faster turnaround for water bombers, a longer runway and more space for the aircraft.
Topics: emergency-planning, disasters-and-accidents, bushfire, fires, brukunga-5252, adelaide-5000, sa, woodside-5244
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| UpdatedA Senate inquiry into Tasmania's bushfires last summer recommends a national firefighting team be considered, along with more federal funding to tackle risks in the state's Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Topics: federal---state-issues, bushfire, environmental-management, community-and-society, government-and-politics, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, burnie-7320, tas
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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.
Topics: bushfire, fires, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, computers-and-technology, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedAuthorities charge two juveniles over an East Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people and destroyed or damaged more than 1,700 buildings.
Topics: arson, bushfire, united-states
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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.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, climate-change, nsw, act, australia
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| UpdatedAn emergency warning is downgraded for travellers crossing the Nullarbor and Eyre Highway is reopened after a bushfire near Cocklebiddy in Western Australia forced its closure earlier.
Topics: bushfire, cocklebiddy-6443
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| UpdatedNearly eight years on from the bushfire disaster dubbed Black Saturday, the distribution of $700 million to thousands of victims is approved by the Supreme Court of Victoria, bringing an end to Australia's biggest class action.
Topics: bushfire, courts-and-trials, community-and-society, kinglake-3763, marysville-3779, kilmore-3764, vic
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| UpdatedAuthorities are warning fuel loads bolstered by a mild, wet spring could see a catastrophic bushfire again strike the Perth Hills, where two blazes have already razed homes in the past decade.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, parkerville-6081, stoneville-6081, wa
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A US firefighter has shot dramatic footage driving through a wildfire in the state of Tennessee.
Topics: bushfire, united-states
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Country music star Dolly Parton pledges $US1,000 a month for families left homeless after a series of wildfires swept through Tennessee.
Topics: fires, bushfire, music, charities, united-states
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Thousands of residents in the Gatlinburg area were evacuated and hundreds of structures destroyed by wildfires, according to officials in the US state of Tennessee.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, united-states
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| UpdatedA wet winter and good spring growth means Victoria is facing a higher-than-average bushfire threat this summer, with hot and dry conditions forecast in the coming months.
Topics: bushfire, states-and-territories, vic
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A bushfire that has tripled in size in the past 24 hours closes the Waterfall Way between Dorrigo and Bellingen.
Topics: bushfire, regional, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444
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| UpdatedA six-year study into the effects of the Black Saturday bushfires finds more than a quarter of those in high impact areas still suffered serious mental health issues years after the deadly event.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, mental-health, australia, vic
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A six-year study into the effects of the Black Saturday Bushfires has found more than a quarter of those in high impact areas still suffered severe mental health issues years after the event.
Topics: bushfire, mental-health, australia, vic
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Perth residents are warned to take care as smoke haze from several bushfires burning in the South West covers the city.
Topics: bushfire, environmental-health, environment, perth-6000, wa
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Auskar Surbakti speaks to AP Jerusalem correspondent Aron Heller about wildfires which have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate in Israel.
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Dangers during high risk fire weather is still on the minds of many farmers who lived through the Pinery fire.
Topics: bushfire, stockport-5410
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A good farming year has lifted the spirits of farmers like Mark Hill in the Pinery fire region.
Topics: bushfire, stockport-5410
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A bumper year has helped lift spirits on the one-year anniversary of the devastating Pinery fire, but reminders of the day still linger.
Topics: emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, agricultural-crops, rural, bushfire, community-and-society, owen-5460, stockport-5410
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Healthy fields have lifted the mood of farmers hit by the Pinery fire.
Topics: bushfire, stockport-5410
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Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes as fires raged throughout Israel for a third consecutive day.
Topics: bushfire, fires, arson, unrest-conflict-and-war, israel
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| UpdatedTens of thousands of people in Israel's third-largest city evacuate their homes as fires, which authorities say were started by arsonists, rage across the country.
Topics: bushfire, arson, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, israel
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Amateur photographer Stuart Milde captures a year of extreme seasons and colours at Pinkerton Plains in South Australia's mid-north.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, pinkerton-plains-5400, sa