Tag: emergency
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Four people dead in second regional house-fire tragedy
Central Queensland is reeling after a fatal early-morning house fire – the second deadly blaze to kill multiple people in the state in less than a month. The bodies were discovered in the property’s burnt remains in Emerald, police said. The blaze erupted before 7am on Thursday in the regional town about 270km west of…
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Two families ripped apart after ‘heartbreaking’ fire
A second crime scene has been established after a woman and two boys were killed in a horror house fire that has ripped apart two families. A central Queensland community is reeling after the bodies of three people were found in the charred remains of a two-storey home in Gladstone. Tributes have poured in for…
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Qantas plane makes international emergency landing
A Qantas Airways flight from Sydney has landed safely at Auckland airport after a mayday call from the pilot led to emergency services being activated. Emergency services rushed to Auckland Airport after a reports of fire on the plane, New Zealand media outlets reported. Sixteen fire trucks from the Auckland area responded to the incident.…
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Emergency curfew imposed to stop Alice Springs violence
Chaos descended on Alice Springs on Tuesday afternoon when a large group attacked the Todd Tavern, leaving a $30,000 damage bill, as tensions escalated following the death of a teenager. Chief Minister Eva Lawler labelled the attack horrific and unacceptable. “We never want to see anything like that in the Northern Territory again,” she said…
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Hawaii wildfire death toll rises
Firefighters continue to fight on Thursday the fire that has been fuelled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane. The blaze started on Tuesday and took the island by surprise, racing through parched growth and neighbourhoods in the historic town of Lahaina, a tourist destination that dates to the 1700s and…
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Rhodes burns as wildfires rage in Greece
Their efforts were without the help of firefighting planes and helicopters, which do not operate at night. The most serious fire was on the island of Rhodes. Some 19,000 people had been evacuated from several locations on the island as wildfires burned for a sixth day, Greek authorities said. No further evacuations had been ordered…
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Rebel Russian mercenary army turns back from Moscow ‘coup’
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former Putin ally and founder of the Wagner army, said his men reached within 200 km of the capital on Saturday. Earlier, Moscow deployed soldiers in preparation for their arrival and told residents to avoid going out. The Wagner fighters captured the city of Rostov hundreds of kilometres to the south before…
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117 days worth of ramping in April is best result for a year
The state government this morning released April ramping figures showing that ambulances spent 2810 hours outside hospital entrances waiting to admit patients. But that figure was 1158 hours lower than the March level of 3968 hours – equal to 165 days or five and a half months. The government said that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital…
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SA on bushfire alert as heatwave continues
The CFS said Thursday’s bushfire risk is extreme from the west coast to the upper southeast, including the Adelaide Hills with total fire bans in place. The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a top temperature in Adelaide on Thursday of 41C, on day three of the five-day scorcher. The mercury is also tipped to hit…
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Bushfires warning after La Nina ends
The analysis looked at what happened after the nation experienced previous prolonged periods of cooler, wetter La Nina conditions. There have only been three since 1950: 1954-57, 1973-76 and 1998-2001. When all three ended, big, deadly fires ensued, particularly on the east coast and especially in NSW. Former NSW Fire and Rescue commissioner Greg Mullins has no…