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Search crews said three people died and more than 560 were rescued.
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Passengers jump for their lives as deadly fire engulfs Indonesian ferry

Search crews said three people died and more than 560 were rescued.

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A fire under a railway bridge in West Melbourne has disrupted train services.

Delays ease after fire underneath railway bridge threatens evening commute

Delays are beginning to ease as the evening peak begins after a fire broke out between Southern Cross and North Melbourne train stations.

  • Alexander Darling
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Fire in the hole!

Here comes Dad. Time to bale.

Thirty firefighters battled the blaze.

‘Towering inferno’: Owner of multimillion-dollar Toorak mansion suspects blaze was deliberate

The owner of a mansion gutted in a fiery blaze on one of Melbourne’s most expensive streets suspects it was deliberately lit.

  • Alexander Darling
Fire Rescue Victoria suffered a cyberattack in December 2022.

Fireys using pen and paper as technology fails following cyberattack

Fire Rescue Victoria endured three separate outages in the past week, for up to seven hours at a time.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
A NSW Police forensic officer inside a burnt room of the Croydon house.

Son charged with murder of elderly father after inner west blaze

Retired music teacher Edward “Ted” Grantham, 80, died in the Sydney house fire. Police have now charged his 50-year-old son Christopher with murder.

  • Josefine Ganko
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Ted Grantham, pictured with his wife Anne, who was not in the house at the time of the blaze.

Man arrested after elderly father dies in suspicious Sydney house fire

Retired music teacher Edward “Ted” Grantham, 80, died in the blaze. Police found his 50-year-old son Christopher on the Central Coast almost 16 hours later.

  • Josefine Ganko and Cindy Yin
Detectives at the scene of the Chadstone house fire on Thursday.

Police yet to talk to critically injured mother after Chadstone blaze, man ruled out as suspect

Two young girls severely injured in a suspicious blaze in Melbourne’s south-east are now in a stable condition in hospital.

  • Cassandra Morgan
An exploding gas bottle is thought to be the cause of a townhouse blaze that has left a woman and her two young daughters fighting for their lives.
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Gas bottle behind suspicious explosion

An exploding gas bottle is thought to be the cause of a townhouse blaze that has left a woman and her two young daughters fighting for their lives.

A crime scene has been established at a Chadstone home after a suspicious blaze.

‘No cries for help’: Gas bottle behind suspicious explosion that left mother, two girls fighting for life

Firefighters forced their way into the townhouse and found the woman and two young children unconscious in an upstairs bedroom.

  • Cameron Houston, Cassandra Morgan and Sherryn Groch

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