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Firefighters in New Zealand's second-largest city Christchurch have halted the advance of a massive bushfire that destroyed 11 homes and forced more than 1,000 people to evacuate.
Topics: fires, bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, new-zealand
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| UpdatedAt least 15 homes have been lost in an out-of-control grassfire burning in southern NSW, as police warn that number may grow.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, queanbeyan-2620, nsw, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedAt least 11 houses have been destroyed by a fire in the Christchurch region which has spread to cover more than 1,800 hectares.
Topics: bushfire, new-zealand
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John Mackie from Christchurch Civil Defence talks to ABC News24 as a bushfire near the New Zealand city rages into its fourth day, February 16, 2017.
Topics: bushfire, new-zealand, pacific
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Port Hills resident "Grant" was forced by police to leave his home of 23 years as fires rapidly approached his property.
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| UpdatedEleven homes burn down and a state of emergency is declared as a raging New Zealand bushfire heads into its fourth day.
Topics: bushfire, new-zealand, pacific
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A resident from Christchurch in New Zealand describes the wild bushfires threatening the city.
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| UpdatedEnergy company says power is being restored to fire-affected communities in western NSW but a union says it is taking longer because of recent job cuts.
Topics: bushfire, electricity-energy-and-utilities, cassilis-2329, dunedoo-2844, mudgee-2850, parkes-2870
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| UpdatedHundreds of people in New Zealand's second-largest city flee their homes as bushfires rage in a nearby mountain range.
Topics: fires, bushfire, new-zealand
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A water bombing plane over smoke from Lindisfarne fire
Topics: bushfire, lindisfarne-7015
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| UpdatedFirefighters in Hobart have gained the upper hand on a vegetation blaze which burned towards the suburb of Lindisfarne.
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Water bombing helicopter over smoke from Lindisfarne fire
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| UpdatedHobart firefighters bring a blaze near Lindisfarne under control after it burnt 25 hectares of scrub and bush and came close to homes.
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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