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| UpdatedSchool children in a small town in western New South Wales hit the pots and pans to help provide energy for firefighters.
Topics: agribusiness, bushfire, food-and-cooking, education, human-interest, coolah-2843, dubbo-2830, orange-2800
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| UpdatedVictoria's career CFA firefighters will receive a $3,000 bonus and a boost to their allowances as a stopgap measure while a bitter pay dispute drags into a fourth year.
Topics: bushfire, states-and-territories, federal-government, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, vic
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| UpdatedMark and Jane Rice's Uarbry home was spared from the fire, but with most of their village now destroyed — including the church where they were married — they feel as though they are homeless.
Topics: fires, bushfire, uarbry-2329, leadville-2844
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As primary producers cope with the damage to their bushfire-hit properties in western New South Wales, veterinarians evaluate injured animals.
Topics: agribusiness, livestock-welfare, livestock, bushfire, coolah-2843, dunedoo-2844, dubbo-2830, orange-2800
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| UpdatedMany residents forced to flee their homes because of a huge bushfire in central western New South Wales are yet to return, a local mayor says, while insurance assessors begin to count the cost of the blazes which have raged across the state.
Topics: fires, bushfire, nsw, dunedoo-2844
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Did you know a bushfire can create its own weather system?
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, weather, australia
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As fires that engulfed thousands of hectares across NSW on the weekend die down, residents are returning to their communities to find nothing left.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, dunedoo-2844, nsw
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| UpdatedResidents are returning to communities in NSW to find nothing left after fires engulfed thousands of hectares across the state, with firefighters still working to contain a bushfire burning to the east of Dunedoo.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, uarbry-2329, boggabri-2382, dunedoo-2844, leadville-2844, mudgee-2850
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Warren Jarvis from Cassilis, in central west New South Wales, lost his house and his stock when bushfires went through on Sunday.
Topics: bushfire, cassilis-2329, nsw
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As "workaholic" former Supreme Court judge Bernard Teague turns to more relaxing pursuits, the 79-year-old says chairing the Bushfires Royal Commission was rewarding work in a long legal career.
Topics: royal-commission-victoria-2009-bushfires, bushfire, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedFormer Supreme Court judge Bernard Teague, who chaired the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, reflects on how he coped with being confronted with devastating evidence about the disaster.
Topics: bushfire, royal-commissions, community-and-society, royal-commission-victoria-2009-bushfires, vic
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Fires raging from catastrophic weather conditions have razed hectares of bushland in New South Wales.
Topics: bushfire, nsw, coffs-harbour-2450, dunedoo-2844, leadville-2844, south-kempsey-2440, mudgee-2850, beechwood-2446, port-macquarie-2444, boggabri-2382
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Topics: bushfire
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| UpdatedFire warnings are downgraded in New South Wales after properties were destroyed, a man was flown to Sydney with severe burns and a firefighter sustained serious injuries.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, bushfire, nsw, coffs-harbour-2450, dunedoo-2844, leadville-2844, south-kempsey-2440, mudgee-2850, dubbo-2830, beechwood-2446, tamworth-2340, gunnedah-2380, port-macquarie-2444, boggabri-2382
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People who live in bushland areas with catastrophic fire conditions are told to leave their homes, as the NSW RFS issues an emergency warning for a fire at Leadville, near Dunedoo, where residents are describing the sky as "black and eerie".
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, dunedoo-2844, nsw
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| UpdatedAn emergency fire warning has been issued for a fire 20km east of Dunedoo.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, dunedoo-2844, nsw
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The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) is urging residents to prepare for catastrophic fire conditions before it is too late as temperatures across the country are set to break records.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedIt's hot outside! Queensland Police Service fry an egg on the patrol car bonnet in Birdsville.
Topics: weather, phenomena, bushfire, birdsville-4482
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The New South Wales Rural Fire Service says today's extreme weather conditions have never been seen before, and fears the situation could trigger uncontrollable, deadly bushfires.
Topics: bushfire, weather, disasters-and-accidents, fires, nsw, australia, qld, vic, act
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Gary Hughes had a distinct experience of Black Saturday, as both a reporter and a victim. The journalist won awards for his coverage of the disaster, but struggled with the way the media treated people who had lost everything.
Topics: bushfire, community-and-society, st-andrews-3761, vic
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| UpdatedPeople who live in bushland areas with catastrophic fire conditions are told to leave their homes, as the NSW RFS issues emergency warnings for fires at Leadville near Dunedoo and Lower Pappinbarra, 50km west of Port Macquarie.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, weather, australia, act, nsw, qld, sa
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| Updated"You will not outrun these fires", says the NSW fire chief, warning people to avoid or leave the bush before Sunday as the state gears up for catastrophic fire ratings worse than the Black Saturday conditions in 2009.
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Christine Nixon, former Victoria Police chief commissioner speaks about the aftermath of Black Saturday.
Topics: bushfire, kinglake-3763, vic
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| UpdatedAs Victoria's Police Commissioner during Black Saturday, Christine Nixon says she never tried to avoid the public scrutiny that came her way after a scathing assessment of her leadership on that fateful day.
Topics: bushfire, police, community-and-society, vic
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| UpdatedMuch of Australia is enduring an extreme heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 45C in parts of the country, and conditions are expected to worsen across the weekend.
Topics: weather, environment, bushfire, fires, australia, sa, vic, qld, nsw, act