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Injured man expected to be charged with murder after fatal housefire in SA’s mid-north
A man has died and two people remain in hospital following a fire at Redhill in South Australia’s…
#Australia #airlifted #attemptmurder #AU #Austrlia #emergency #emergencyincidents #suspiciousfire
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Police suspect domestic violence in death of woman in tractor incident south of Brisbane
By Antonia O'Flaherty
Police are investigating the death of a young woman in an incident involving farm machinery at a rural property south of Brisbane. The death is being treated as a possible domestic violence incident.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-15/qld-woman-dies-in-tractor-incident-on-logan-farm/103473226
Campers and residents evacuated as fire burns towards popular Tasmanian holiday hamlet
Campers and residents are being evacuated from a popular coastal region of north-east Tasmania as an emergency level bushfire burns through the area.
Grampians residents tell of bushfire terror as dozens take refuge in shelter
By Tamara Clark, Gillian Aeria, Angus Mackintosh, and Jean Bell
Residents of the Grampians in western Victoria tell how they had to make split-second decisions as fire raced towards them.
#Bushfires #EmergencyIncidents #TamaraClark #GillianAeria #AngusMackintosh # #JeanBell
Melbourne bridge cordoned off after police shooting in city centre
A man has been shot near a busy Melbourne train station as police were responding to an unrelated incident on Friday evening.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-09/melbourne-princes-bridge-police-shooting/103450922
Regulator takes power station to court over outage that left almost 500,000 homes without power
By Katrina Beavan and Scout Wallen
The Australian Energy Regulator alleges a Queensland coal-fired power station did not comply with its generator performance standards, causing an explosion leading to a major blackout.
#Energy #Coal #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #EmergencyIncidents #CourtsandTrials #KatrinaBeavan #ScoutWallen
Top End communities cut off by flooding for weeks 'disgusted' by lack of government support
By James Elton
Residents in Timber Creek and Bulla say "the food wasn't coming" during their recent three-week isolation. Things got so bad, neighbours chartered their own helicopter for a food run, and a cattle station donated a freshly killed carcass.
#DisasterRelief #Floods #EmergencyIncidents #StateandTerritoryGovernment #JamesElton
Six teenagers from Townsville high school rushed to hospital after ingesting unknown substance
By Chloe Chomicki, Lily Nothling, and Rachael Merritt
The school called emergency services to its campus, where paramedics assessed multiple teenage patients and took six to Townsville University Hospital.
#Schools #Police #EmergencyIncidents #ChloeChomicki #LilyNothling # #RachaelMerritt
Lack of oxygen could have caused fatal plane crash that killed three people: ATSB
By Larissa Waterson and Emily Dobson
A preliminary report suggests hypoxia could be the reason three aerial firefighting crew members, including 22-year-old William Jennings from the US, died when their plane crashed in rural Queensland in November.
#Rural #AirTransportIndustry #EmergencyIncidents #Bushfires #LarissaWaterson #EmilyDobson
Search to resume for missing swimmer on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula
A search will continue today for a 20-year-old swimmer who was caught in a rip at Rye on Sunday evening. It's the second emergency incident at Rye over the weekend after a scuba diver died at Rye Pier.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-05/search-for-missing-swimmer-at-rye/103426246
El Niño-worsened flooding has Somalia in a state of emergency. Residents of this town are desperate
Some families say they have nowhere to hide from deadly flooding, as rainfall exacerbated by El Niño pummels parts of Somalia.
#Floods #DisastersAccidentsandEmergencyIncidents #Weather #ClimateChange #EmergencyIncidents #Rain
Pregnant woman suffers cardiac arrest after being hit in the head by rock allegedly hurled by 17-year-old boy https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-30/pregnant-woman-in-icu-after-rock-throwing-incident/101715970 #news #PregnancyandChildbirth #EmergencyIncidents #Crime
100 jobs to go at central Queensland coal mine Miner Anglo American says it is cutting 100 jobs from its workforce at the Grosvenor mine in Moranbah, months after operations were halted because of an explosion that seriously injured five workers, with the miners union warning affected workers might receive no redundancy payments. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-14/100-workers-to-be-sacked-from-anglo-coal-mine-queensland/12767722 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #Unemployment
Cerise thought a snake had bitten her. But another creepy critter was to blame Two women were admitted to an outback Queensland hospital for suspected snake bites in one night, but they were both bitten by something else. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/centipede-bites-in-outback-queensland/12700036 #Invertebrates-InsectsandArachnids #EmergencyIncidents #WeirdandWonderful #AmbulanceService #Accidents-Other #PestManagement #Entomology #Rainfall #Animals #Offbeat #People
Two men rescued after tinny sinks off NSW coast Two men have been pulled from the water six nautical miles off Nambucca Heads, on the Mid North Coast, after their tinny sank. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-05/two-men-rescued-from-sinking-boat-off-nambucca-heads/12527198 #Fishing,Aquaculture #EmergencyIncidents #Safety
Three fishermen rescued from sinking boat off Wollongong coast Three fishermen are winched to safety after abandoning their sinking boat off the New South Wales Illawarra coast. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-05/three-people-rescued-from-sinking-boat-off-illawarra-coast/12525528 #Fishing,Aquaculture #EmergencyIncidents #SeaTransport #Safety
'I would've been dead as a doornail': Boy struck by falling tree during NYE bushfires walks again Ivan Kovalevsky escaped the hell of the New Year's Eve bushfires on the NSW South Coast last year and arrived in Sydney in a helicopter with a broken spine — to the sound of fireworks exploding beneath him. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-30/milton-bushfire-victim-walking-again-after-nye-tree-fell-on-him/12402976 #HealthcareFacilities #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyCare #RuralYouth #People
Mum gives ferret mouth-to-mouth after deadly plunge into toilet Trixie the ferret was clinically dead for 20 minutes after she became trapped in the toilet. But thanks to the cool head of a New South Wales mum (and a hair dryer), Trixie is expected to make a full recovery. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-24/trixie-the-ferrets-brush-with-death/12384338 #EmergencyIncidents #VeterinaryMedicine #Animals
New training to help SA emergency workers in regional areas respond to major events First responders in south-east South Australia are being trained to provide world-class search and rescue in the event of a major disaster in the region. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-22/mfs-training-for-disasters-in-south-australia/12379850 #TravelHealthandSafety #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyPlanning #IndustrialFires #EmergencyCare #Forestry #Forests
Major grass fire season predicted for western NSW as crops and grass bloom Good autumn rainfall and low stock numbers has led to bumper crops and grass growth, prompting concerns about the potential for major grass fires during the fire season. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-18/grass-growth-western-nsw-grassfire-bushfire-risk-fire-season/12364146 #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyPlanning #AgriculturalCrops #LivestockWelfare #LocalGovernment #Environment #Regional #Bushfire #Rainfall
'It could be someone you know': How mining tragedies impact whole communities The wife of a miner who works at the Moranbah coal mine says incidents such as last Wednesday's, which left five men in hospital, are why she and her husband forego an extra $50,000 a year to avoid going underground. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-14/mining-tragedies-take-toll-on-whole-family-and-community/12241496 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #Accidents-Other #LocalGovernment #Mining(Rural)
Queensland's mine minister refuses to resign following Moranbah mine blast Anthony Lynham is under pressure from the Opposition to "fall on his sword" over the latest mining disaster, which saw four men critically injured in an underground blast at Anglo American's coal mine in central Queensland. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-08/mine-explosion-moranbah-minister-lynham-resign-public-hearing/12227618 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #Mining(Rural) #Accidents #Workplace
Four miners critical after 'gas' explosion at central Queensland mine Five miners are flown to Brisbane, four in a critical condition, after an underground mine explosion that the CFMEU says appears to have started with an ignition of gas along the coal face. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-07/moranbah-mine-explosion-queensland-five-workers-flown-brisbane/12222430 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #Mining(Rural) #Accidents #Workplace #Rural
Five people injured in Moranbah mine explosion Five people have critical injuries after an explosion at Grosvenor coal mine at Moranbah in central Queensland's Bowen Basin. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-06/moranbah-mine-explosion-five-people-injured/12220924 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #Mining(Rural) #Accidents #Workplace #Rural
Wildlife carers, vets call for faster and better prepared wildlife rescue after bushfires Wildlife injury from megafires overwhelmed volunteer responders who now call for strategies to be included in government response planning. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-19/carers-and-vets-call-for-better-prepared-wildlife-fire-rescue/12134828 #VeterinaryMedicine #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyPlanning #Bushfire
'We honour the sacrifice': Tributes for those who lost their lives as bushfire season ends After a devastating summer of unprecedented destruction in which 25 lives were lost in NSW and 2,448 homes destroyed, NSW RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the people killed would never be forgotten. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-31/tributes-paid-as-nsw-bushfire-season-officially-ends/12106174 #DisastersandAccidents #GovernmentandPolitics #EmergencyIncidents #Bushfire #Fires #Rural
The NSW community that put aside differences to battle the Gospers Mountain blaze When the Gospers Mountain fires nearly destroyed a critical coal mine in the NSW Blue Mountains, environmentalists and miners put aside their differences https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-09/gospers-mountain-miners-puts-differences-aside-to-fight-fires/11946672 #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #EnvironmentalManagement #DisastersandAccidents #EnvironmentalImpact #EmergencyIncidents #MiningIndustry #Mining(Rural)
Hopes to reopen Nullarbor highway dashed by renewed fire activity Hundreds of travellers and transport workers are stuck in towns on either side of the Nullarbor Plain as fires burning in WA keep the Eyre Highway shut. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-09/hope-to-reopen-nullarbor-highway-dashed-by-renewed-fire-activity/11854822 #Business,EconomicsandFinance #EmergencyIncidents #TravelandTourism #HumanInterest #RoadTransport #RuralTourism #Transport #Bushfire #Industry #Road
'We had to drive through the fire' Residents on the NSW Southern Highlands had no warning before their homes were surrounded by a large bushfire in the dead of the night, which travelled 30km in just two hours. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-07/no-warning-as-out-of-control-bushfire-hit-bundanoon/11846774 #EmergencyIncidents #Bushfire #Regional #Rural
'My chef fled to Melbourne': Fires scare off more than tourists in East Gippsland Ken Eckersley is dealing with the devastating consequences of bushfires in East Gippsland — the tourists have been scared off, his winery is closed and his chef is not coming back anytime soon. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-07/bushfires-victoria-businesses-tourism-suffer/11845386 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #RuralTourism #Bushfire #Tourism #Fires #Rural
This farm stands between the fire front and Nowra – and it's filled with hazardous peat John Bennett's property is under threat from bushfires — alarmingly it is on swampland where a large underground fire is already burning in the bog's layer of peat, a dangerous and unpredictable combustible. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-03/peat-on-farm-standing-between-bushfire-front-and-nowra/11839646 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #BeefCattle #Livestock #Bushfire #Fires #Rural
Nullarbor road closures from bushfires could hit Perth grocery shelves Bushfires closing major highways on the Nullarbor could cost the economy millions, with food shortages and price increases tipped for Perth. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-03/nullarbor-road-closures-to-last-five-days-causing-food-shortages/11837324 #TravelHealthandSafety #EmergencyIncidents #RuralTourism #Bushfire
Adelaide Hills loses a third of the region's vineyards A fast-moving fire in the Adelaide Hills destroys around a third of the region's vineyards as well as orchards and livestock. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-12-24/adelaide-hills-bushfire-destroys-one-third-of-vineyards/11824064 #EmergencyIncidents #AgriculturalCrops #LivestockWelfare #HumanInterest #Horticulture #Viticulture #FruitTrees #Grapevines #Livestock #Bushfire #Fires #Fruit
'Power network fault' to blame for SA bushfire that damaged 11 properties Authorities say electrical infrastructure caused the bushfire on South Australia's Lower Yorke Peninsula that damaged 11 properties. The CFS says there were 69 fires throughout the state on Wednesday amid catastrophic conditions. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-21/sa-bushfire-destroys-home-as-yorketown-fire-burns-out-control/11723302 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #AgriculturalCrops #LivestockWelfare
NSW bushfire death toll rises to four The death toll from NSW's bushfires has risen to four, after a man's body is found in burnt-out bushland near Kempsey, on the Mid-North Coast last night. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/nsw-fires-death-toll-rises-after-fourth-body-found/11703328 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #Bushfire #Fires #Rural #Death
Inside the NSW community that's now a ghost town after blazes ripped out its heart The small, commune-like town of Wytaliba was one of the worst hit areas by the bushfires earlier this month and until residents can rebuild, it will remain an eerie, burnt-out shell. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/nsw-bushfires-inside-small-town-wiped-out-wytaliba/11702106 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #Bushfire #Fires #Rural
Witness recounts horror at seeing man plummet to death from Daintree zip-line Mardi Liebelt was next in line to take a flying fox through the rainforest canopy when the zip-line snapped, watching in horror as a 50-year-old South Australian man fall to his death and his wife writhed in pain. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-23/zipline-accident-daintree-cairns-queensland-flying-fox/11629162 #DisastersandAccidents #EmergencyIncidents #Accidents-Other #RuralTourism #Accidents #Rural
Two men critical after crane overturns in north Queensland Two men are critically injured after a crane overturns near Mareeba in Far North Queensland this morning. The crash follows the death of a man in a separate crane incident on Sunday. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-29/crane-accident-far-north-queensland/11358990 #EmergencyIncidents #LocalGovernment #Regional #Death #Sugar