Fire
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Firefighter was checking on colleagues’ safety when killed in bushfire zone
The national parks worker died after being struck by a tree in the Bulahdelah fire ground, north of Newcastle.
- Daniel Lo Surdo
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‘It’s all gone’: Devastated locals confront aftermath of Central Coast blaze
Koolewong residents returned the smouldering remains of their homes on Sunday after 16 houses were lost to a fast-moving and furious bushfire.
- Sally Rawsthorne and Lucy Macken
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- Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, tragedy fuels a national security crackdown
The Wang Fuk Court towers were still smouldering when Hong Kong authorities shifted gear from crisis to crackdown.
- Lisa Visentin
Graphics and video show Hong Kong fire’s rapid, deadly spread
Investigators are piecing together how the city’s worst fire in decades tore through seven high-rise buildings in minutes.
- Tom Housden and Matt Willis
Person found dead in caravan fire near Brisbane
A fire engulfed the caravan and spread to a nearby building before emergency services could contain it.
- Dominique Tassell
The man whose grief spoke to the world as Hong Kong towers burnt
Wong left home to pick up his granddaughter from school. He returned to find his building ablaze and his wife trapped inside. That was when photographer Tyrone Siu found him.
- James Pomfret
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- Brisbane
One person killed in house fire near Brisbane
Three people were assessed by paramedics outside a house fire that firefighters took hours to contain.
- Dominique Tassell
Man’s body found in burnt-out charity building
Hundreds of Christmas hampers were destroyed when fire ripped through the charity building in Brisbane’s south-west.
- Dominique Tassell
‘Broken hearts’ and curdling fury as Hong Kong mourns fire victims
As the death toll climbed to 146 on Sunday, residents told how they had complained about the renovations in the 40-year-old towers, and requested they be done one at a time.
- Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
Explosion at St Marys waste facility causes ferocious blaze
A huge fireball erupted at a western Sydney waste disposal facility sending flames 150 metres into the sky.
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