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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...