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Hazard Reduction Burn in Stromlo Forest Park

ACT Parks and Conservation Service is planning to undertake a Hazard Reduction Burn tomorrow, Friday 24 February 2012, weather permitting. The burn will commence at...

Update - Fire extinguished in Mawson apartment

ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics treated a 55 year old man for smoke inhalation and transported him to The Canberra Hospital in a stable condition.

Fire extinguished in Mawson apartment

ACT Fire & Rescue has evacuated a small number of people from an apartment complex in Mawson because of a fire. Crews responded to the Heard Street complex with...

Fire training exercise in Narrabundah tomorrow

ACT Fire & Rescue (ACT F&R) will conduct a Fire Investigation Training exercise tomorrow, Thursday 23 February 2012, at 5 Nyeena Place Narrabundah, between...

Firth Rd Hazard Reduction Burn

ACT Parks and Conservation Service is planning to undertake a Hazard Reduction Burn tomorrow, Thursday 23 February 2012, weather permitting. The burn will commence at...

9 calls for assistance for ACTSES

ACT State Emergency Service (ACTSES) has received nine calls for help tonight following the wet and windy weather. ACT Fire & Rescue and ACTSES have responded to...

ESA sends two more MAPS members to QLD

The ACT Emergency Services Agency will send two more volunteer members from our MAPS team to QLD today to work with Red Cross on flood recovery operations. The pair will...

Fyshwick Hazard Reduction Burn

The ACT Rural Fire Service (ACTRFS) will conduct a Hazard Reduction Burn tomorrow night, Thursday 16 February 2012, weather permitting, at Fyshwick. The ACTRFS...

Kambah Hazard Reduction Burn

ACT Parks and Conservation Service is planning to undertake a Hazard Reduction Burn tomorrow, Friday 16 February 2012, weather permitting. The burn will commence at...

Update - Fire on Sheppard Street, Hume

ACT Fire & Rescue have extinguished a fire believed to have started in a conveyer belt, at a paper recycling business in Hume. Eight employees self evacuated from...