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Australia: NSW bushfires this week a taste of things to come
2013-09-11 08:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: New South Wales and Victoria have been warned to expect a fierce bushfire season, with the head of a government-funded research body warning that bushfire prospects are "as bad as we've seen in quite some time'. Dr Richard Thornton, chief executive of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, told Guardian Australia that the fires that have raged in NSW this week are "unusually early' but are consistent with a heightened risk of bushfires in the state over the coming months....
House destroyed as firefighters battle bushfires in western Sydney
2013-09-10 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Bushfires in New South Wales have destroyed at least two houses and injured two firefighters. The NSW rural fire service (RFS) said one house had been destroyed in Hawkesbury Road at Winmalee, in the Blue Mountains, and two firefighters battling the blaze there suffered minor burns. A second house was lost in Marsden Park in the Blacktown area, in Sydney's west. Five firefighters had been treated for smoke inhalation. Briefing parliament on Tuesday, the NSW premier, Barry O'Farrell, said...
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CFA douses networking issues following Black Saturday bushfires
2013-03-11 08:07:34| Telecom - Topix.net
The Black Saturday fires on 7 February 2009 which threatened much of Victoria was the catalyst for improvements in IT networking and incident response at the Country Fire Authority .
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How Australians survive the raging bushfires
2013-01-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Dozens of out-of-control fires have burnt vast tracts of Australia, destroying homes and crops and killing animals, but not a single person has died. The success of the operation to safeguard lives has much to do with a detailed guide to surviving bush blazes, along with an official danger rating system that was introduced after 173 people perished in the 2009 Black Saturday firestorm. In addition the Rural Fire Service (RFS) is extremely proactive in promoting safety precautions and warns...
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Bushfires rage on in Australia 'helped' by climate change
2013-01-12 09:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australian firefighters are continuing to tackle more than 100 bushfires, which have gutted houses and thousands of hectares of land. Officials say temperatures are lower than feared, but gusty winds are making it hard to contain the blazes in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Six people have been treated for heat exposure, but nobody has died. A government commission says the heatwave and fires have been exacerbated by global warming. "Climate change is increasing the risk of more...
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