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.

Firefighters have extinguished the ground floor unit fire on Ainslie Avenue, Reid. The apartment has sustained serious damage.

ACT Fire & Rescue, ACT Ambulance Service and ACT Policing are on scene at a ground floor unit fire on Ainslie Avenue, Reid.

ACT Fire & Rescue has responded to a unit fire on City Walk, Civic.

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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.

Following multiple Triple Zero (000) calls this evening, ACT Fire & Rescue has investigated reports of a fire at the Belconnen Markets.

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.

ACT Fire & Rescue have completed operations on Bugden Avenue, Fadden. The cause of fire has been determined to be not suspicious.