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The ACT Rural Fire Service Tidbinbilla Brigade will tonight, Tuesday 15 January, 2013, weather permitting, assist a private landholder with a hazard reduction burn at...
ACT Fire & Rescue crews are continuing to ventilate the basement area of the high rise building.
No cause of smoke has been found.
Staff have been permitted to...
ACT Fire & Rescue are continuing to search for the cause of the smoke in the basement of the high rise building.
Building remains evacuated at this stage as a...
ACT Fire & Rescue are currently investigating smoke in a basement at Lovatt Tower, Keltie Street, Phillip.
Up to 600 people have been evacuated from the 22 level...
ACT Fire & Rescue and the ACT Rural Fire Service have extinguished a grass fire burning at Parkwood road, Macgregor
The Bushfire Alert and Warning Level for this...
ACT Fire & Rescue have now lifted the cordon at Woden Plaza.
An initial investigation by firefighters indicated a faulty boiler may have released carbon monoxide...
The ACT Ambulance Service has transported a further four people to The Canberra Hospital for observation.
This is purely as a precaution as they were in the area at the...
ACT Fire & Rescue (ACTF&R) has cordoned off an area in Bradley Street Woden after two people collapsed.
The cordon is in a small area between the McDonalds...
There are currently no fires burning in the ACT.
There is a strong smell of smoke over many parts of Canberra this morning. This is being blown to the ACT from fires in...
ACT Fire & Rescue and ACT Rural Fire Service have extinguished a grass fire that was burning at Horse Park Drive in Harrison.
The Bushfire Alert and Warning Level...