Emergency services
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Water safety
Search for boy missing off Central Coast beach to resume on Christmas Day
A large-scale sea and air search was launched after reports the 15-year-old was swept off a rock shelf at about 3pm on Tuesday.
- by Riley Walter
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Young boy dies in Meadow Springs house fire
A four-year-old boy has died in a house fire just days before Christmas.
- by Cameron Myles
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Bushfires
Halls Gap evacuated as authorities warn Grampians fire will burn for weeks
An emergency warning to evacuate immediately was also issued for a small town in the Macedon Ranges on Saturday, but was later downgraded.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Ashleigh McMillan
Explainer
Earthquakes
Scientists know where the big earthquakes will hit. They just don’t know when
A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough to prepare?
- by Sherryn Groch
11-year-old survives floating alone for days after shipwreck
The “exhausted and cold” girl was saved by a German-flagged sailboat after withstanding a three-day storm and big waves.
- by Colleen Barry and Maria Grazia Murru
Not-so-smooth criminals ram-raid Bunbury shop for no apparent reason
A ram-raid extensively damaged a convenience and tobacco store in Bunbury on Monday night, with the offenders fleeing the scene without stealing anything.
- by Emma Young
Man dies after two boats collide on Sydney Harbour
Emergency services were called to New Beach Road in Darling Point around 6.30pm after two boats were reported to have collided.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
Watchdog finds WA emergency department data so poor it’s ‘unauditable’
The state’s auditor general has found Health Department systems to track ED patients are outdated, inefficient, frustrating and weak.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Young WA boy in coma after Bali quad bike accident
Doctors are expected to arrive in Bali to medivac eight-year-old Perth boy Joshua Schuetz back to WA.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Triple-0 outage left staff working with pen and paper for hours
Call-takers and dispatchers were forced to manually take details down when Triple Zero Victoria’s system went offline on Wednesday night.
- by Rachel Eddie
Woman dies in Forest Hill house fire
An elderly Forest Hill woman has died in a house fire on Wednesday night, believed to have been started from clothing being dried in front of a heater that ignited.
- by Shelby Garlick
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