The allocation of more than $3.3 million in bushfire mitigation funding to high-risk local governments has been met with “gratitude and relief” by one of its first-time Great Southern recipients.
Melissa Sheil
The blaze is contained but remains uncontrolled.
Matthew Paddick
Walking through the wreckage of the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, there’s this unsettling silence. It’s the kind of quiet that forces you to confront the enormity of what’s happened.
Justin Rooney
The alert level for an out of control bushfire in Perth’s southern suburbs has been downgraded.
Jessica Evensen
Watch and act advice is in place for a bushfire burning near Hill River Nature Reserve, the fire is not contained or controlled.
Artemisia Blythe
The bushfire has been burning in a regional park for more than 14 hours and has burnt through 25 hectares of bushland, with firefighters on the ground and aerial support struggling to control the blaze.
Lisa Thomas, Jonathon Nolan and Matt Zis
The coastal town of Ledge Point has been spared from a bushfire that came just metres from destroying homes and a local caravan park.
Claire Sadler
A bushfire emergency warning has been issued for Gingin after a blaze escaped containment lines.
Caitlin Vinci
A bushfire emergency warning has been issued for the South West locality of Meerup after a blaze escaped containment lines.
Following the bushfire in Dunsborough last month, the Marri Reserve has been temporarily closed for safety reasons and to allow the vegetation to recover
Ezra Kaye
A 21-year-old man will face multiple charges after a stolen car was dumped and set alight on a bush track in Perth’s southern suburbs last month.
Rachel Fenner
The bushfire was moving fast in a northerly direction and was not contained or controlled.
A bushfire emergency warning has been issued for Windy Harbour after a blaze — which has razed more than 28,000ha — escaped containment lines.
Caleb Runciman
Police and fire and rescue authorities in the Great Southern have joined forces to catch arsonists in the act, working together to patrol areas in the region most at risk.
Georgia Campion
Residents have been warned of an ‘out-of-control and unpredictable’ bushfire threatening communities in the Wheatbelt.
The Windy Harbour bushfire, which has razed about 25,000ha of land, has been downgraded to a watch and act following a downfall of rain.
Residents in communities near Windy Harbour have been warned it’s too late to leave as more than 230 firefighters battle an out-of-control bushfire.
The town of Dunsborough had a near miss at the weekend as a bushfire raged through the Marri Reserve and affected about 2000 residents.
It is alleged the 30-year-old lit three scrub fires in one afternoon on February 4.
Oliver Lane
The fire burnt over 300ha of the Walpole-Nornalup National Park and threatened properties.
The cause of an Esperance bushfire which came within metres of homes on Wednesday is being treated as suspicious.
Carwyn Monck
Anyone with any information in relation to the incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
An out-of-control blaze which sparked an emergency warning in parts of Esperance has been downgraded to watch and act but residents are being told to remain away from the area.
People travelling on North West Coastal Hwy in an area south of Overlander Roadhouse and north of Billabong Roadhouse in parts of Hamelin Pool, Coburn, Meadow in the Shire of Shark Bay are urged to leave now.
Hannah Cross
