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The incident control centres came as part of a response to the devastating Wooroloo bushfires of 2021.

The plan to tackle WA’s ‘intensifying’ bushfire threat

Western Australia’s firefighters will coordinate their bushfire attacking efforts from the confines of fortified shipping containers under a new trial.

  • Connor McGoverne

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The Little Desert fire has burnt more than 90,000 hectares, or two-thirds of the national park.

Grampians residents warned to evacuate, cool change brings city relief

Eleven towns in Victoria’s west are at risk from a bushfire burning out of control near the Grampians, as the winds that carried a cool change to Melbourne brought new threats for firefighters.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Alexander Darling and Angus Delaney
A woman and a dog walk around Albert Park this week.

Storms hit Geelong, Phillip Island as state braces for extended heatwave

As many 40,000 homes are without power and the SES has been swamped with calls for help after lightning and thunderstorms struck on Sunday evening.

  • Ashleigh McMillan, Angus Delaney and Roy Ward
Eucalyptus trees are a fire risk around the world.

The Australian species spreading all over the world and exacerbating bushfires

Eucalyptus trees are grown in plantations in nearly 100 countries and planted as city trees on every continent besides Antarctica.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The Little Desert bushfire threatened Dimboola on Monday, January 28, 2025. Facebook video posted by Jamie Chandler.

Heatwave raises fire danger across Victoria

The heat threatens to worsen existing fires in the Grampians, which are burning out of control as firefighters engage in back-burning to limit the spread.  

  • Angus Delaney
City dwellers have been considering a tree-change.

How to tell if that tree-change dream house is actually a nightmare

City-dwellers have been moving to the coast and country for a more relaxed lifestyle and cheaper housing, but there can be a hidden cost.

  • Jim Malo
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The firefighters’ union estimates that 42 per cent of the Fire Rescue Victoria fleet is past its 15-year replacement date.

‘A last resort’: Fireys vote to take dozens of failing trucks off the road

The United Firefighters Union says 15 per cent of the current fleet is dangerously out of date.

  • Chip Le Grand and Cassandra Morgan
The Little Desert bushfire threatened Dimboola on Monday, January 28, 2025. Gif taken from Facebook video posted by Jamie Chandler.

A lucky wind saved this town, but dangerous fire still burns

A beloved nature lodge and two farmhouses have been destroyed in a fast-moving fire in the Wimmera, while firefighters prepare for another weeks-long fight in the Grampians.

  • Sherryn Groch and Cassandra Morgan
The Little Desert fire burning out of control on Monday.

Residents told it’s too late to leave as fire threatens homes in Victoria’s west

A cool change has brought relief from the heat around the state, but bushfires are still raging in Victoria’s west.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Lachlan Abbott
Smoke from nearby bushfires billows across Moruya in January 2019.  

Amid bushfire’s smoke, there was kindness everywhere you looked

As the fires raged, we huddled in an evacuation centre with 100 other people: it was Armageddon-like.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris

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