Bushfires

Firebans, heatwave, hot dry winds, drought and bushfires – in a weekend reminiscent of the Black Summer of 2019, Fassifern firies fought fires at Burnett’s…

Fires have been banned in the Scenic Rim and Ipswich as large swathes of Queensland are on high alert for bushfires amid hot, dry and…

Firefighters have triumphed in their efforts to extinguish a bushfire which burnt 2,500 hectares over about three weeks in the Scenic Rim. Rural Fire Service…

Powerlines are suspected to have caused a fire on Carney’s Creek Road at Croftby on Friday. Rural and urban fire brigades from the Boonah Group…

Ipswich and Scenic Rim are among the areas which will move into a Local Fire Ban overnight. The Qld Fire and Emergency Services announced the…

Firefighters will be looking to make the most of what could be the last day of favourable conditions as they battle to contain a blaze…

Kooralbyn residents are readying to either fight or flee a bushfire which has been burning on the outskirts of their township for days. Back burning…

A night of back burning and water bombing has secured the township of Kooralbyn, but a large bushfire will continue to burn for days to…

Firefighters are planning to back burn near Kooralbyn on Tuesday night as they battle to contain the region’s biggest bushfire of the season to date. …

Crews left the scene of a grass fire at Collingwood Park at around 1:45pm Tuesday, October 13. A QFES spokesperson said crews put in controlled back…

People are being warned they need to be ready to flee and urged to stop using drones as the season’s first big bushfire burns in…

Firies are keeping an eye on multiple fires in Ipswich that began burning on Saturday. A bushfire which began on Saturday, raged to the north…