Bushfires

BushfiresMelbourne furniture factory fire contained

Fire crews have contained a Melbourne factory blaze and will investigate its cause.

Callum Godde

BushfiresDozens injured South Korea high-rise fire

A 33-storey apartment building has caught fire in the city of Ulsan, South Korea, injuring dozens of people.

BushfiresFire burns out of control at Melbourne tip

A fire is burning out of control at a tip in outer Melbourne, with residents advised to keep windows and doors closed if they are sensitive to smoke.

Residents warnedSmoke alert issued for Perth’s southern suburbs

The thick layer of smoke — blanketing parts of Perth Hills, Armadale, Dwellingup, Muchea and Gosnells — is from prescribed burns being carried out by the Parks and Wildlife Service.

Sarah Steger

BushfiresSearch steps up for US wildfire victims

Crews are searching for the dead among blackened ruins in Oregon as massive wildfires rage across three western US states.

Adrees Latif and Patrick Fallon

BushfiresOregon's wildfires force mass evacuations

An outbreak of fires sweeping the western United States has scorching a landscape the size of New Jersey and killed at least 25 people.

Deborah Bloom

BushfiresNine killed in US west coast wildfires

Fires raging in the US states of California, Oregon and Washington have destroyed towns and killed at least nine people, officials say.

Carlos Barria and Adrees Latif

BushfiresThree dead as US wildfires explode

Deadly US wildfires raging across the Pacific Northwest have destroyed hundreds of homes in Oregon, while three lives have been lost in northern California.

Terence Chea and Brian Melley

BushfiresWildfires advance on Californian city

Californian fire crews have been overwhelmed dealing with hundreds of lightning-sparked fires, which have caused six deaths and destroyed 500 homes.

StorytellingAustralian bushfire drama series to hit ABC

A new television drama will draw upon the experiences of those affected by the summer bushfires that unleashed devastation across the country earlier this year.

BushfiresThousands evacuated in California fire

A large-scale fire, dubbed the Apple Fire by local firefighters, is burning in Cherry Valley, a community about 120km east of Los Angeles.

Gabriella Borter

BushfiresReport supports NSW bushfire funds release

A NSW upper house committee has supported comedian Celeste Barber's wishes for her fundraising efforts to be delivered to bushfire communities.

Ashlea Witoslawski

BushfiresFire rips through Melbourne factory

Firefighters have contained a large factory fire in Melbourne's north but will remain at the scene overnight until the blaze is completely extinguished.

Christine McGinn

BushfiresBundaberg backpackers goes up in flames

More than 60 backpackers and pub-goers have been accounted for after a major blaze at a backpackers hostel in Bundaberg .

Robyn Wuth

Blurred linesDisaster watch: Bushfire season rules ‘no longer apply’

The bushfire seasons in the north and south of WA have started to overlap despite their different climates, a royal commission has been told.

BushfiresBarber seeks NSW RFS funding rule change

Australian comedian Celeste Barber has supported a change to the rules surrounding NSW RFS funding as a NSW upper house inquiry on the matter kicks off.

BushfiresSailors injured in US navy ship fire

17 US sailors and 4 civilians have been taken to hospital after a large fire broke out on board a US navy ship docked at San Diego.

Gabriella Borter

BushfiresEndangered native mouse survives bushfires

The endangered Smoky mouse has been discovered in the Kosciuszko National Park after it was feared to have been wiped out of the area by bushfire.

BushfiresChilders blaze pain runs deep 20 years on

It's been 20 years since Robert Long torched a backpackers hostel in the dead of night, killing 15. Now he wants Queensland authorities to free him.

Tracey Ferrier

BushfiresChilders blaze pain runs deep 20 years on

It's been 20 years since Robert Long torched a backpackers hostel in the dead of night, killing 15. Now he wants Queensland authorities to free him.

Tracey Ferrier

BushfiresTributes flow for family dead in Vic fire

A father and son killed in a holiday home fire in regional Victoria have been remembered in a funding campaign aimed to help the rest of their family recover.

Ulises Izquierdo