Victoria bushfires
‘We were extremely lucky’: This family narrowly escaped death on Black Saturday, but Kinglake is still home
The Age photographed the Nash family in 2009 after the fire destroyed all of their possessions bar the clothes line and a cubby house. We revisited them as The Age turns 170, and they say they can get through anything.
- by Carolyn Webb
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Black Saturday
Burnout and trauma: huge climate cost on emergency workers revealed
One type of injury suffered by police and firefighters leapt by 50 per cent during the Black Saturday and Black Summer bushfire disasters.
- by Bianca Hall
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Victorian budget
Forest fire redundancies ‘risk emergency responses’
Victoria’s Environment Department is looking to make 208 people redundant in its bushfire and forest services group, including 118 in forest fire operations.
- by Rachel Eddie
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Bushfires
Court slaps CFA over decision that ‘sent a shiver down the spine’ of CFA volunteers
The CFA rejected the medical opinions of six experts and cut compensation to a traumatised firefighter based on the assessment of one dissenting psychiatrist.
- by Cameron Houston
A Grampians town’s remarkable recovery after ‘the beast’ burnt through
A bushfire wiped out one-third of the tiny Grampians town of Pomonal 12 weeks ago. The town knew about resilience before the fire hit, and now it’s putting it into action.
- by Clay Lucas
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Festival chaos across Victoria amid extreme heat and bushfire warning
The Moomba parade has been cancelled due to forecast severe heat, as drama engulfs a camping arts festival in regional Victoria that is proceeding despite an extreme fire warning.
- by Rachael Dexter and Max Walden
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