Fires

Police are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed two businesses on the far south coast of New South Wales.

The fight to save the veined doubletail orchid had a breakthrough in the Black Summer bushfires and now elders are leading a series of cultural burns to regenerate the endangered flower.

A fire that gutted a shopping centre in Perth's inner north-east is deemed to be non-suspicious, after authorities reviewing CCTV initially mistook the reflection of a car's windscreen for a molotov cocktail.

After initially declaring a fire that gutted the Morley Market shopping centre was deliberately lit, police backtrack on that claim and deem the blaze "non-suspicious".

The Bruce Highway is expected to remain closed for several hours after a B-double fuel tanker rolled and caught fire south of Maryborough.

Parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria will see increased fire risk this spring, as emergency services unveil their outlook for the season. 

Fire crews were unable to save the building despite an hours-long effort to stop the blaze.

Tasmanian musician Samuel Wellings, known as Kim Dracula, has made a lucky escape after their tour bus caught fire in the early hours of the morning in Texas.

Katanning volunteer Aron Burnett is one of a string of Australians flown in to deal with the worsening fire crisis across central and western Canada.

E-bike hire businesses across NSW say they may be forced out of business as they struggle to meet strict new rules designed to make them safer.

A fire that ripped through a food business on Hindley Street is believed to have started in a deep fryer, with the Metropolitan Fire Service saying early indications suggest a damage bill of up to $400,000.

A battery embedded in a device thrown out with household rubbish took just seconds to spark a multi-agency emergency when a garbage truck's load burst into flames.

Wildfires are raging across parts of Europe including Spain, Portugal, Greece, Türkiye and the Balkans, fuelled by extreme heat, wind, and drought.

Blazes damage property and prompt evacuations across Europe as Spain, Turkiye, Albania and Montenegro swelter in temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius.

Fire destroyed the historic Canberra Services Club building at Manuka in the city's south on 28 April, 2011.

Two people have been taken to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after the Canberra Services Club was engulfed in flames for the second time in 15 years, the first being in 2011 when a fire gutted the Manuka headquarters. 

Two people have been taken to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after the Canberra Services Club was engulfed in flames for the second time in 15 years, after a 2011 fire gutted the Manuka headquarters.

The number of fires caused by exploding lithium-ion batteries in WA so far this year is almost double the number of fires for the entire 2020.

Poor air quality, health care delays and a surge in suicides are blamed for hundreds of deaths following large-scale bushfires in Los Angeles and Hawaii.

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park raises concerns about a string of arson attacks on tobacconists after one in his own electorate is destroyed by fire at the weekend.