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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.
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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.
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| UpdatedA senior member of Victoria's community-based firefighting organisation, the CFA, is stood aside after an unauthorised security camera is found in a shed where volunteers change their clothes.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, fires, bendigo-3550, vic
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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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A resident from Christchurch in New Zealand describes the wild bushfires threatening the city.
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A fire on Hobart's eastern shore, which took three hours to control, may have been deliberately lit, with sightings of people reported in the bushland where the fire started.
Topics: fires, emergency-incidents, lindisfarne-7015
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ACT police investigate a fire that destroyed a residential unit in Waramanga and caused smoke damage to a neighbouring unit.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, fires, waramanga-2611, act
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Hundreds of people in the New Zealand city of Christchurch were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as bushfires threatened some suburbs, February 15, 2017.
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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.
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| UpdatedFirefighters rescue a cat and her five kittens from a fire in a unit at Kingswood, in Sydney's west.
Topics: human-interest, fires, animals, kingswood-2747, sydney-2000
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Cattle farmer and NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer Murray Coe lost his family home near Leadville while he was helping to save other properties.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, leadville-2844, nsw
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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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| 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?
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| UpdatedA former NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer is refused bail after being charged for lighting two fires north-west of Forster, a crime the RFS Commissioner slams as "heinous".
Topics: fires, courts-and-trials, nabiac-2312, taree-2430
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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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| UpdatedMost of the small community of Uarbry has been wiped out by a bushfire burning near Dunedoo, residents say, with some of the destroyed homes belonging to volunteer firefighters who were out combating the blaze.
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There are more than 80 fires still burning around New South Wales, with at least 12 homes lost but no known fatalities.
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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.
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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