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Witnesses describe the moment a passenger plane crashed into a retail outlet near Essendon Airport in Melbourne's north, killing all five people on board, February 21, 2017.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, fires, melbourne-3000, essendon-3040, vic
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| UpdatedFive people, including a pilot with almost 40 years of charter flying experience (pictured), die as a result of Victoria's worst civil aviation accident in 30 years, after a plane crashes into a shopping centre near Melbourne's Essendon Airport.
Topics: accidents, air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, fires, essendon-3040, melbourne-3000, vic
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A woman has died in a house fire in Sydney's south. A man managed to escape the inferno at the property in Bangor, but the roof has collapsed and the woman's body is believed to be inside.
Topics: residential, fires, disasters-and-accidents, bangor-2234
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| UpdatedA mother of four who died in a house fire in Sydney's south this morning was asleep when the blaze broke out, NSW police say.
Topics: fires, bangor-2234
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| UpdatedThe NSW Rural Fire Service releases the final damage toll for a grassfire east of Queanbeyan, saying 11 homes were destroyed and 12 damaged.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, captains-flat-2623, act, queanbeyan-2620, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedWhen evacuated residents returned to the Carwoola fire ground, what they found there was a landscape transformed.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, bushfire, queanbeyan-2620, nsw, canberra-2600, act
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At least 15 properties have been destroyed by the Carwoola fire to the east of Queanbeyan in NSW.
Topics: bushfire, fires, captains-flat-2623, queanbeyan-2620, nsw, act
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Firefighters hope a change in weather conditions will help them stay on top of a major bushfire that destroyed at least 15 homes to the east of Queanbeyan in New South Wales.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, queanbeyan-2620, captains-flat-2623
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| UpdatedResidents are beginning to return to their homes in the wake of a major bushfire east of Queanbeyan in New South Wales, anxious to find out whether buildings are still standing.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, bushfire, captains-flat-2623, queanbeyan-2620, nsw, australia, act, canberra-2600
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Siobhan Heanue reports from the NSW Rural Fire Service headquarters near Queanbeyan, February 17, 2017.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, queanbeyan-2620, nsw
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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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| 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.
Topics: fires, bushfire, new-zealand
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A resident from Christchurch in New Zealand describes the wild bushfires threatening the city.
Topics: fires, bushfire, new-zealand
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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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Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, waramanga-2611, act, australia, canberra-2600
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Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, crime, police, law-crime-and-justice, waramanga-2611, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Topics: fires, new-zealand
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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.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, new-zealand
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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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| 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