MELBOURNE: Firefighters in Western Australia got under control six fires in the state's southwest that authorities said on Sunday (Feb 7) were most likely deliberately lit, while rain helped to contain a weeklong blaze that destroyed 86 homes in t...
PERTH: Firefighters battling a devastating bushfire that has destroyed 86 homes on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia hope heavy rain forecast over the weekend will help douse the flames, state authorities said on Saturday (Feb 6). Thous...
Fierce winds are fuelling raging bushfires in Western Australia. More than 80 homes have been destroyed in the Perth Hills region. Firefighting aircraft have been grounded because of the winds, leaving it to ground crews to put out the flames. Su...
A mammoth effort by Australian firefighters saved homes from an out-of-control bushfire near Perth overnight, authorities said Thursday, but warned strong winds and rough terrain posed an ongoing challen...
Thousands of people have been urged to leave their homes in Perth as strong winds fan a bushfire that has already destroyed at least 71 homes. People in danger have been told to ignore a new coronavirus lockdown in the city and evacuate immediatel...
Strong winds threatening to fan a bushfire prompted Australia on Wednesday to urge thousands of people to leave their homes in the provincial capital of Perth, complicating a lockdown after the state...
The state of Western Australia is facing an "unprecedented situation" as it battles a raging wildfire while millions of residents are under coronavirus lockdown, the state's premier Mark McGowan said in a media briefing Wednesd...
A bushfire just outside of Perth has destroyed dozens of homes as the city remains in Covid lockdo...
A large blaze is racing towards Perth as the state capital remains in a snap coronavirus lockdo...
Footage from inside fire engine show firefighters battling a bushfire near Cherry Gardens in the suburb of Adelaide, South Australia on 24 January. Firefighting continued overnight with reports of multiple ignition points. Some brief respite wa...
A bushfire casts smoke over Adelaide as other parts of Australia face their worst fire risk in a ye...
Firefighters are battling to keep a large bushfire which has come within 700 metres of a small township on an Australian holiday island at bay. Dozens of residents of Happy Valley were earlier urged to evacuate as the blaze raged east across Fras...
More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has estimated, in what it called a deeply disturbing number for a...
Australian authorities on Monday asked residents of a coastal township in the world heritage listed Fraser Island to "leave immediately" after a massive bushfire burning there since mid-October was expected to reach the township early morni...
Residents on Fraser island are warned as a bushfire engulfs the Unesco World Heritage si...