Fire & Rescue
Sydneysiders brace for hottest day of summer
A total fire ban is in place, with the city’s final scorcher for the year forecast for Friday. But a potential thunderstorm could dampen New Year’s Eve celebrations.
- by Cindy Yin
Latest
Fears for schools, daycares: The 500 sites yet to be tested for forever chemicals
It could take 50 years to investigate all the potentially contaminated sites across Sydney and the rest of NSW, an inquiry has heard.
- by Carrie Fellner
Silos collapse at Bomaderry
Hundreds of tonnes of wheat spilled into the Shoalhaven River on October 17, when two silos collapsed at the Manildra starch factory in Bomaderry, on the NSW South Coast. Vision: Fire and Rescue NSW
Sailor who fell from cargo ship found safe after almost 24 hours at sea
The man was spotted south of Newcastle at 6.30pm on Friday night, a day after he fell overboard from a cargo ship.
- by Nigel Gladstone
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Pollution
New ‘forever chemical’ tests zero in on contamination source
Independent tests have linked PFAS contamination in the Blue Mountains to the site of a 1992 petrol tanker crash.
- by Ben Cubby and Carrie Fellner
‘Nothing to suggest’ Bondi kosher business fire was targeted: police
Emergency services were called to Lewis’ Continental Kitchen on Curlewis Street just after 4am to reports of a fire.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
Exclusive
Pollution
‘White hot’: Cancer-linked chemicals flowing into dam at 50 times safe level
Independent tests near Medlow Dam in the Blue Mountains show contamination at far higher levels than the government has admitted.
- by Ben Cubby and Carrie Fellner
Blue Mountains dam shut after discovery of cancer-linked forever chemicals
Forever chemicals had been found at high levels in the dam which feeds into the drinking water supply to around 41,000 residents. Now authorities have stepped in.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Bushfires
Fire in Sydney’s south-west downgraded after emergency warning
Residents had been told to seek shelter as firefighters water bombed the out-of-control blaze near Liverpool.
- by Riley Walter and Nick Newling
Updated
Sydney Metro
Stuck train forces evacuation of 150 Sydney metro passengers
Internal communications by Fire and Rescue NSW obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald show the passengers were stuck on the train for about half an hour.
- by Matt O'Sullivan and Michaela Whitbourn
Sydney Harbour fire threatens heritage-listed former Manly ferry
Fire and rescue crews were called to Berrys Bay where a derelict boat was alight near the SS South Steyne, on which Queen Elizabeth II took a cruise in 1988.
- by Chris Barrett
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