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ACT Parks and Conservation will continue a pile burn at Kowen Forest tomorrow (weather permitting).
There is approximately 50ha of piles remaining from the original burn...
A small fire inside a retirement facility in Bruce has been quickly extinguished.
ACT Fire & Rescue was alerted to the incident at the Calvary Retirement Village on...
Residents, especially those in the west of Canberra, may notice a heavy smoke haze around the local region.
This smoke is the result of prescribed hazard-reduction pile...
The fire has now been extinguished.
Quick work from ACT Fire & Rescue has ensured that damage was contained to the garage and did not extend into the house.
At this...
ACT Fire & Rescue is working to extinguish a garage fire in Dunlop.
Crews were alerted to the incident on Thornhill Crescent at 2.52am and responded with three fire...
The ACT Parks and Conservation Service is conducting a prescribed burn today at Kowen Forest.
The burn will cover a number of piles of forest debris in three distinct...
The ACT Rural Fire Service (ACTRFS) will conduct a hazard reduction burn, weather permitting, tomorrow at Yarralumla on behalf of the National Capital Authority.
The...
The restaurant has sustained minor water and smoke damage.
ACT Fire & Rescue has handed the premises back over to the owners.
The people evacuated from the immediate...
Fire crews have checked the roof space and confirmed there is no fire present.
An ACT Ambulance Service crew is on scene as a precaution.
Intensive care paramedics...
Approximately 30 people have been evacuated from premises in the Melbourne Building following a restaurant pizza oven fire.
The fire was quickly extinguished by the...