The special squad — which is part of veteran-led disaster response organisation Team Rubicon — includes a former soldier, retired London police officer and even an arborist who has been helping to cut down trees around the devastated town of Cobargo.
When Scott Pape lost his home in the Black Saturday bushfires, he was forced to start over again. Now the author of The Barefoot Investor money bible wants to help this summer’s survivors.
Queen fronted by Adam Lambert reprised the band’s iconic 1985 Live Aid set for Fire Fight Australia, where Olivia Newton John performed for the first time in two years with John Farnham and Russell Crowe made a special appearance.
Sydney is ready to host a mammoth weekend of entertainment with more than 140,000 fans heading to ANZ Stadium for Queen and Fire Fight Australia concerts. Here’s what you need to know.
Exhausted fire crews are bracing for the return of severe fire conditions as soaring temperatures return to large parts of NSW, just days after wild weather and hail downed power lines and damaged buildings.
Heroic, heartbreaking and simply harrowing … This is the complete and definitive collection of now iconic images from the Australian bushfire crisis. Warning: Graphic Images
For months, often at great personal risk, NewsCorp photographers have documented the bushfire crisis, their images conveying to audiences the enormity of the disaster. These are their stories from the front lines of an unprecedented tragedy.
At News Corp, we are committed to helping communities rebuild after the bushfires, and today’s special editions will add to the millions we are putting towards recovery, writes Michael Miller.
Firefighters Irene Pachos and Daryl Aldridge know how close they came to losing their lives when a “widow-maker” gum tree crashed down on their truck.
Volunteer firey Steve Hillyar was 24 hours into a brutal shift, going door to burning door in the seaside town of Malua Bay, unaware his own slice of paradise was burning to the ground. Only his chooks, three pigs and a sheep were still standing.
Woolworths is showing their appreciation by offering a 10 per cent discount to all volunteer fighters and emergency services teams.
A fortnight after two volunteer firefighters pulled Troy Pauling’s family from a flaming house, the badly burned dad staggered to his feet and threw his bandaged arms around the heroes who, at the time, couldn’t answer the kids when they asked: “Are we going to die?”
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