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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

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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
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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Volunteers were unavailable to fight fires in regional Victoria on Thursday night.

CFA volunteers walk off job to protest new fire tax

Dozens of brigades went offline on Thursday night to protest the new tax that passed through parliament early on Friday.

  • Alexander Darling, Kieran Rooney and Cassandra Morgan
Farmers strongly oppose the increased fire services levy.

What is the fire services levy and who pays it?

Victoria’s fire services tax rate has more than doubled. The extra money will supposedly better equip emergency services, so why are firefighters protesting?

  • Gemma Grant
CCTV shows the blue sedan used in the attack on the Ripponlea synagogue.

Hooded figures, an underworld getaway car: Police allege link between synagogue, nightclub fires

Detectives have released never-before-seen footage and reveal they believe the same getaway car used in a Melbourne nightclub firebombing was used in the attack on a Ripponlea synagogue.

  • Sherryn Groch, Cassandra Morgan and Alexander Darling
The scene on Forster Court on Thursday morning.

Screams, then a jump: ‘Miracle’ fire escape as woman leaps from balcony

A mother and her teenage daughter were hospitalised after a blaze ripped through a townhouse in Melbourne’s south-east overnight.

  • Cassandra Morgan

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