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Soldiers in Kyiv fold a Ukrainian flag on the coffin of a soldier killed Russian troops in a battle.

The DNA detectives taking on the grim reality of Ukraine’s war

Their code is “everyone has the right to a dignified life, everyone has the right to a dignified death”. And they are using ingenious ways to identify bodies, and bring closure to families.

  • John Silvester

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Victorians have been warned that this year’s bushfire season could be similar to the Black Summer of 2019-20.

Bracing for a bad bushfire season, this year I’m packing two emergency kits

For some people, mementos may be considered “stuff” – unimportant, unnecessary and replaceable. For others like me, these items are the opposite.

  • Shona Hendley
Nash family

‘We were extremely lucky’: This family narrowly escaped death on Black Saturday, but Kinglake is still home

The Age photographed the Nash family in 2009 after the fire destroyed all of their possessions bar the clothes line and a cubby house. We revisited them as The Age turns 170, and they say they can get through anything.

  • Carolyn Webb
A firefighter reacts as a blaze rages out of control from the Bunyip State Park towards Labertouche and Tonimbuk during the Black Saturday bushfires, which claimed 173 lives in 2009.

Burnout and trauma: huge climate cost on emergency workers revealed

One type of injury suffered by police and firefighters leapt by 50 per cent during the Black Saturday and Black Summer bushfire disasters.

  • Bianca Hall
The Bayindeen-Rocky Road fire buring in bushland yesterday.

Forest fire redundancies ‘risk emergency responses’

Victoria’s Environment Department is looking to make 208 people redundant in its bushfire and forest services group, including 118 in forest fire operations.

  • Rachel Eddie
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Triumph and tragedy: A front-page view of history

As The Age celebrates 170 years, we look back on some of the most notable major events featuring on our front pages over the decades.

  • Hannah Kennelly
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Hazard reduction shouldn’t be hazardous. So why the escaped fire at Oxford Falls?

Have we learnt all the lessons from our 2020 Black Summer disaster? Last weekend’s blaze suggests that we haven’t.

  • Ian Brown
The traumatised firefighter worked on Black Saturday and attended accidents.

Court slaps CFA over decision that ‘sent a shiver down the spine’ of CFA volunteers

The CFA rejected the medical opinions of six experts and cut compensation to a traumatised firefighter based on the assessment of one dissenting psychiatrist.

  • Cameron Houston
Brendan Sokaluk.

Black Saturday arsonist who killed 10 released from prison

Brendan Sokaluk, a former Country Fire Authority volunteer, was freed on Tuesday after serving 15 years for deliberately lighting a blaze in the Latrobe Valley.

  • Alex Crowe and Cameron Houston
Clothes still hang on the line in bushfire-hit areas near Beaufort.

Fire-ravaged towns warned to brace for ‘worst fire day’ in four years

Forecast extreme heat, high winds and dry lightning mean Wednesday will be “a very dangerous and difficult day across Victoria”, Premier Jacinta Allan said.

  • Ashleigh McMillan

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