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Fire Rescue Victoria is failing to meet its response time targets for structure fires.

Suburbs left behind as Fire Rescue Victoria misses emergency targets

Fire Rescue Victoria was created to better protect booming outer suburban communities, but the agency is falling short of its response time targets for structure fires in these areas.

  • Patrick Hatch

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Firefighter Amber Murphy behind the wheel of one of the new state-of-the-art trucks at Western Sydney Airport.

‘Snozzle’ at the ready: State-of-the-art fire station set for Sydney’s new airport

Firefighters are readying the new station and gigantic trucks for the first cargo flights late next month, followed by passenger aircraft three months later.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Wiley Park station is closed while work continues on converting the line between Sydenham and Bankstown to metro train standards.

$32m in work needed after Sydney metro opening risks disrupting commuters

Commuters face extra disruptions after the ribbon is cut on the final stage of the M1 if construction cannot be done during scheduled maintenance shutdowns.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
An oil drum storage facility in Brisbane’s east burst into flames overnight, throwing fireballs and billows of smoke into the air.

Oil drum facility fire causing traffic delays on major motorway

The blaze threw fireballs and billows of smoke into the air in the early hours of the morning.

  • Julius Dennis
Three-year-old Jordan Dashwood died in the house fire in Werribee.

Werribee toddler’s death could have been avoided, firefighters’ union says

“Had there been a second truck, there would have been a different outcome to this tragedy,” the United Firefighters Union said on Tuesday.

  • Alexander Darling
Three-year-old Jordan Dashwood has died in a house fire in Werribee.

Toddler dead in Werribee house fire, dad seriously injured in desperate rescue bid

A toddler has died and his father is in hospital with serious injuries after fire tore through a family home in the Melbourne’s west overnight.

  • Alexander Darling
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The Treehouse Early Learning Centre on Juers Street.

Childcare centre destroyed in fire days after nearby business burned down

The building partially collapsed about 1am, after half-a-dozen emergency teams arrived on the scene.

  • William Davis
Woman dies in unit fire at Neptune Resort in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast on May 30, 2026.

Woman dead, crime scene declared after Gold Coast fire

An elderly woman was pulled from a suspicious unit fire on the Gold Coast but could not be revived.

  • Julius Dennis
A tyre store at Kingston has burned down.

Streets locked down, man in hospital after industrial blaze

A Brisbane tyre store was engulfed in flames, forcing police to cordon off surrounding roads, while paramedics took one person to hospital.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Livesay Road, Moggill - House Fire May 10, 20206 Brisbane

Family home destroyed in intense Brisbane blaze

Fire crews were unable to save the Queenslander, which was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived.

  • Louise Harris