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Record number of calls for help

A record number of calls for help has been received by the ACT Emergency Services Agency (ESA) today. Over the last two years, the ACT State Emergency Service has...

Update - storm damage 6:00pm, 20 January 2020

As at 6:00pm today, the ACT ESA has received more than 1,750 calls for assistance from the severe storm activity. Emergency services personnel will be working through...

Update - storm damage 2:50pm, 20 January 2020

As at 2:50pm today, the ACT ESA has received more than 1,200 calls for assistance from the severe storm activity. The Specialist Intelligence Gathering (SIG) Firebird...

Update - storm damage 20 January 2020

As at 1:50pm today, the ACT ESA has received more than 620 calls for assistance from the severe storm activity. Due to the high volume of calls there may be a short...

Storm damage 20 January 2020

Since midday, the ACT ESA has received 226 requests for assistance via 132 500. The ACT State Emergency Service, ACT Fire & Rescue and ACT Rural Fire Service are...

Update - fires to the west of the ACT

Today, ACT Remote Area Firefighting Teams (RAFT) were transported and winched onto the Mary's Hill fire ground by Helitak 274 and 275 to undertake firefighting due to...

From bushfire to babies

A Canberra mother has given birth in an ACT ambulance. Baby number three for the family arrived much faster than anticipated. At approximately 2 pm today, paramedics...

Final update - chlorine leak - Civic Pool

ACT Fire & Rescue has contained and cleared the chlorine leak at Civic Pool. Atmospheric monitoring has deemed the area safe. The site has been handed back to pool...