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6:30 AM Severe Thunderstorm Update

The ACT State Emergency Service has received 436 requests for assistance following a severe thunderstorm on Monday evening.   Crews worked through the night to...

2330 Severe Thunderstorm Update

As of 11:30 PM the ACT State Emergency Service has received 436 requests for assistance following a severe thunderstorm impact in the ACT on 3 January 2021. 35 crews...

7:30 PM Severe Thunderstorm Update

As of 7:30 PM the ACT State Emergency Service has received more than 190 requests for assistance following a severe thunderstorm impact in the ACT on 3 January...

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the ACT

The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 5:20 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on the weather radar near Belconnen, Canberra Civic, Hall, Gungahlin and South...

Grass Fire - Oxley

ACT Fire & Rescue, ACT Rural Fire Service and ACT Policing are currently attending to a small grass fire at the top of Oxley Hill in Oxley. The fire is under...

Rescue - Booroomba Rocks, Tennent

ACT Ambulance Service, ACT State Emergency Service and ACT Policing are responding to a rescue incident at Booroomba Rocks, Tennent. Reports a person has fallen of a...

Update - Building Fire Belconnen

ACT Fire & Rescue firefighters have now contained the building fire on Rae Street Belconnen.  Firefighters are working to extinguished two small areas of fire....

Building Fire - Rae Street, Belconnen

ACT Fire & Rescue are on scene at a confimed building fire on Rae Street, Belconnen.  Firefighters are working to contain a fire which is burning within a...

Motor Vehicle Incident - Ngunnawal

ACT Ambulance Service, ACT Fire & Rescue and ACT Policing are in attendance at a serious motor vehicle incident on Horse Park Drive near the intersection of Arrabri...

Severe Thunderstorm Warning - ACT

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the ACT for damaging winds, large hailstones and heavy rainfall over the next several...