The ACT Emergency Services Agency would like to reassure the community that the smoke haze and smell of smoke in the ACT today and likely for a number of days is coming from prescribed hazard burns in
[media-alert type="image" id=30608]ACT Fire & Rescue has extinguished an extensive fire on the balcony of a first floor apartment on Flemington Road, Franklin.
The balcony sustained major damage.
ACT Fire & Rescue are on scene at a unit fire on Chandler Street, Belconnen.
Chandler Street is closed and the community is asked to avoid the area.
Update to follow.
Unattended cooking left on a stove top has caused the evacuation of up to ten residents from an apartment building in Macquarie.
ACT Fire & Rescue responded to the scene shortly before 9:00 pm.