Bushfires

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A home owner who lost his house and his cat to a bushfire in Geraldton, in WA's Mid West, says "karma" is looking for anyone who may have deliberately lit the blazes.

Authorities have downgraded their warning levels for bushfires burning in the greater Geraldton area to an 'advice' level after a challenging day for firefighters. 

Public school parents in New South Wales have been advised school closures may occur on days of elevated fire danger.

Lives and homes are again under threat from a bushfire burning in Western Australia's Midwest, with a fresh emergency warning issued in Geraldton's outer suburbs.

An increased risk of bushfire is expected for parts of the country this summer, with most areas expecting hotter than normal temperatures.

Dry conditions dogging Victoria put the state at a high risk of bushfires this summer, according to the latest summer fire outlook. 

Tributes flow for a firefighter who died while attending a scrub fire on the Eyre Peninsula over the weekend.

Ten years after the Pinery bushfire tore through an area roughly the size of Greater Adelaide, those who were there reflect on how it changed their lives. 

Emergency authorities are paying tribute to Country Fire Service firefighter Peter Curtis, who died in the line of duty at a conservation park on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.

The NSW rural Fire Service has carried out its first night-time water bombing operations at the bushfire near Lithgow.

The NSW RFS carries out its first night-time water-bombing operation on an out-of-control bushfire on the central tablelands. The agency says the missions are a "game changer" heading into summer. 

A fire-resistant mesh is being used to protect thousands of wooden power poles from bushfires across the NSW Central Coast and Hunter regions.

A decade on from bushfires that claimed four lives, this community says not enough has been done to ensure they are safe.

The woman lit a prohibited fire on the protected sand island and used a drone in a restricted area.

Victims of the devastating 2019 Cudlee Creek bushfire, which caused more than $200 million in damage, are seeking compensation from SA Power Networks, alleging the electricity distributor was negligent in the lead-up to the blaze.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand says an out-of-control wildfire in Tongariro National Park has swelled in size to about 1,000 hectares, leading to the evacuation of dozens of hikers.

Ahead of bushfire season, the SA Country Fire Service's air operations teams clear out the cobwebs and take to the skies to simulate bushfires in the Flinders Ranges. 

Three arrests have been made in two separate incidents in regional South Australia, one in which a man allegedly lit a fire before throwing a rock at firefighters and another involving a car being discovered in flames after allegedly leaving a "trail of destruction" on a property.

The Australian Workers' Union says Victorian female forest firefighters have been short-changed by an average of more than $4,000 in pay growth since 2019.