Picture this. It's a summer evening in Australia. A dry lightning storm is about to sweep across remote, tinder-dry bushland.

Two decades ago, fire ripped through Canberra, destroying 480 homes. An Australian fire chief reflects on possible lessons ...

Remote sensors, satellites and live feeds to firefighters.It's the future of firefighting and in the wake of the catastrophic ...

The Western Australian (WA) state government has announced the start of construction on a new A$5.1m ($3.17m) volunteer ...

Firefighters are working to make further progress against Los Angeles blazes that have killed at least 24 people, as ...

The state’s Rural Fire Service has been warned a program to leverage private water supply during bushfires has “ceased to be ...

What should have been a day of celebration became a day of unimaginable tragedy as an infant, one-year-old Harlyn, died in a ...

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To the editor: I write from the relative safety of Perth, Western Australia, where it’s summer and we are in our own fire season. Like yours, our firefighters have also been extraordinary in ...

The incident forced the temporary suspension of a Big Bash fixture at the Brisbane ground, but, thankfully, there were no ...

Powerful winds forecast for Wednesday threatened to whip up massive fires still burning around Los Angeles, possibly ...

Today, Scott is the chief of the Australian Capital Territory's Rural Fire Service, which oversees Canberra's outlying regions. The Times spoke with him about the 2003 tragedy and how it changed ...