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At least four homes were destroyed at Bulahdelah on the weekend.

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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Craig Saxon and Sarra Saxon-Gill return to their home destroyed by the Koolewong bushfire.

‘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
Police carries bodies of victims out of Wang Fuk Court.

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
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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
A person has died in a caravan fire west of Brisbane.

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
Wong, 71, is pictured amid the catastrophe on November 26.

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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Three people have been assessed by paramedics outside a house fire in Redland Bay.

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
A charity building in Brisbane’s south-west has been destroyed in a fire.

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
Huge crowds lay flowers to pay tribute to the victims of the Tai Po fire.

‘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
A huge fireball erupted at a western Sydney waste disposal facility sending flames 150 metres into the sky.
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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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