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Victoria Police
Innocent pair dead after ‘targeted’ arson attack on Sunshine North panel shop
Two people sleeping behind a factory have died after a deliberately lit fire spread from a neighbouring shop in what police believe was a targeted attack.
- by Najma Sambul
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Chinese temple badly damaged in Lunar New Year blaze
Australia’s oldest continuously operating Chinese temple has been damaged after a fire broke out at the South Melbourne place of worship on Saturday night.
- by Alex Crowe and Ashleigh McMillan
‘Pay up’: Anonymous caller’s alleged threat to Melbourne tobacco store
Arsonists attacked two tobacconists in Ballarat on Thursday morning, hours before police announced two men had been charged in a separate matter relating to a Craigieburn shop.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Alex Crowe
Mystery surrounds 71-year-old man’s arson attack
A frail man has pleaded guilty to deliberately lighting a fire that engulfed a Sydney house with two teenagers inside.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
‘Nothing was stopping this thing’: Escape from Pomonal as wind change drove bushfire into town
About 20 properties are reported to have been wiped out by the blaze, but on Wednesday afternoon many residents of Pomonal were still in the dark about whether their homes had survived.
- by Clay Lucas and Lachlan Abbott
Volunteer firefighters tell of narrow escape from ‘wave’ of fire
A sudden wind shift turned 40-centimetre flames into a wall of raging fire and led to a life-or-death situation for firefighters battling to protect the Grampians town of Pomonal.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
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Wesfarmers
Kwinana residents told to stay in as warehouse fire spreads toxic smoke
Residents in nine suburbs near the Kwinana industrial strip south of Perth were told to remain inside while a fire raged at a fertiliser warehouse on Friday.
- by Peter Milne
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Strata
‘You can’t get out the window if you’re on the 20th floor’: Buildings act on risky e-bikes
A proliferation of fires associated with charging e-bikes and scooters has made strata committees rethink allowing them in buildings.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Man fighting for life after suspicious fire at Sydney home
Police are investigating reports multiple people were seen fleeing the scene.
- by Daniella White
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Kenya
Fears death toll will rise after massive gas explosion burns homes and warehouses
A vehicle loaded with gas caused the explosion in the early hours of the morning in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
- by Tom Odula
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Perth
Woman found dead after Roleystone house fire
Two children escaped the house fire, but emergency crews later made the grim discovery of their mother’s body inside.
- by Heather McNeill and Jake Battrick