A woman has died in Australia and thousands have been forced to flee their homes after torrential rainfall caused flooding in northern Queensland. Authorities say waters will continue to rise and have warned of a “dangerous and life-threatening” situation, with…
Massive blaze destroys historic wedding venue in NSW Hawkesbury
A massive blaze has destroyed a historic wedding venue in the New South Wales Hawkesbury. (Australia) Emergency services were called to the site, Loxley on Bellbird Hill, in Kurrajong Hills, after a fire broke out about 7pm on Friday. More…
Record floods kill four and devastate eastern Australia
About 50,000 people are still isolated across New South Wales after a powerful weather system dumped months of rain in three days. Record-breaking floods in eastern Australia have killed four people and stranded tens of thousands after days of relentless…
Integration of Fire Alarm Systems with Building Management Systems
In today’s world, where technology is evolving at a rapid pace, modern buildings are becoming increasingly complex. They are equipped with a variety of electrical and mechanical systems designed to improve functionality, comfort, and safety. However, as the number of…
Thousands flee homes as floods hit Australia
A woman has died in Australia and thousands have been forced to flee their homes after torrential rainfall caused flooding in northern Queensland. Authorities say waters will continue to rise and have warned of a “dangerous and life-threatening” situation, with…
Tropical Cyclone Megan intensifies to a category-three storm as it bears down on Northern Territory and Queensland
Top End communities were braced for Monday’s arrival of severe Tropical Cyclone Megan, with destructive wind gusts of up to 200km/h expected to bring widespread damage, heavy rainfall and potential flooding to coastal communities into next week. The weather system intensified…
Australia sweats through heatwave, bushfire risk rated ‘extreme’
SYDNEY, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Large swaths of Australia on Sunday sweltered through a heatwave as authorities warned of elevated bushfire risk in an already high-risk fire season during an El Nino weather pattern. The nation’s weather forecaster had heatwave…
More severe, frequent heatwaves pose deadly threat for outback residents this summer
Summer heatwaves have already brought “unusually warm” conditions to much of the Australia as the Bureau of Meteorology urges Australians to be ready for a longer, hotter and more humid season ahead. Outback communities have been battling 40-degree-Celsius conditions since…
Plane crash ‘miracle’: two pilots escape with minor injuries as Boeing 737 firefighting jet crashes in Australia
Two pilots walked away with minor injuries after a Boeing 737 jet converted for firefighting crashed in Australia, officials said on Tuesday (7 February). The twin-engine tanker owned by Canadian-based Coulson Aviation crashed in the Fitzgerald River National Park in southern Western Australia state while…
Australia’s lost radioactive capsule found on Wednesday
A lost radioactive capsule found after a search along a 1,400km stretch of the arid Western Australian outback is due to arrive in Perth on Thursday. The capsule is 6mm in diameter and 8mm long – about the size of…
Incorrect waste disposal puts tip workers in danger as lithium-ion batteries start fires
Waste management workers in Central Queensland are putting out up to five fires a day caused by the combustion of batteries. Isaac Regional Council waste service manager Karl Murdoch said the majority of combustions were caused by the incorrect disposal…
Australia landslide kills two British tourists
A landslide struck a British family on holiday in Sydney, killing the father and his nine-year-old son while critically injuring the mother and another son, Australian police said on Tuesday, 5 April. The family of five was caught by the…
Strong winds and huge seas batter Australia’s south-east even as rains ease
Torrential rain that flooded towns on Australia’s east coast eased on Friday (1 April), but a combination of two intense weather systems generated wild winds and huge waves at several tourist spots including Sydney’s northern beaches. Water levels are gradually…
Fire destroys historic warehouses, but firefighters save petrochemical plant
Fire and Rescue NSW firefighters battled a 10th Alarm Warehouse Fire in the middle of major storms and a widespread flooding emergency in Newcastle, NSW, on Tuesday, 1 March. With a petrochemical plant under threat, more than 100 firefighters worked…
Why are there more earthquakes in Western Australia than the rest of the country?
Hundreds of people were rattled by a 4.7-magnitude earthquake in WA's Great Southern at the start of 2022. The earthquake occurred near Wagin and was the biggest of more than 100 recorded in that region so far this year. Earthquakes…
Australia and New Zealand sending surveillance flights and aid to assess damage from Tonga volcano eruption
The toll from the eruption of a huge undersea volcano in Tonga remains unclear with Australia and New Zealand sending surveillance flights to assess the damage. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano on Saturday prompted tsunami warnings…
Cooper Pedy mine rescue, in the Australian Opal fields
In Australia’s opal capital, Andy Shiels goes underground searching for something much more precious than an opal. For 40 years, he has gone looking to save lives underground. ‘Back in the 70s and 80s, it was very wild around here…
Shell’s giant LNG ship the $24b Prelude shut down after fire
A fire late at night on 2 December on Shell’s Prelude floating LNG vessel off the Kimberley coast caused production at the $24 billion giant to be shut down and left the crew using backup power. A small fire was…
Climate change overwhelming factor in fuelling Australian bush fires
Climate change has been found to be an overwhelming factor in the increase of Australian bush fires in both frequency and intensity, according to a landmark report from the country's national science agency. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation…
Bushfire conditions threaten across Australia’s Northern Territory
Northern Territory fire crews have been working to contain a bushfire burning at Lake Bennett and total fire bans are in place in parts of the Top End. The fire on Marrakai Road, about 85km south of Darwin, was upgraded…
First fire, then Covid-19 and now floods for eastern Australia
In Sydney alone 3,000 people have been evacuated in the area worst hit by flooding, and there are fears up 54,000 more could be affected. Emergency Management Minister David Littleproud warned of a ‘potentially very dangerous situation’ in the worst-hit…
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Mangga delivers wild weather across Southern Western Australia
A massive storm is wreaking havoc on southern coastal parts of Western Australia, including Perth, with thousands of homes without power, trees down and reports of widespread property damage. The State Emergency Service has responded to hundreds of callouts for…