As Australia faces longer, more erratic fire seasons, tools like this may prove essential for staying one step ahead of the ...

Ahead of bushfire season, the SA Country Fire Service's air operations teams clear out the cobwebs and take to the skies to ...

Dozens of firefighters are gathered outside a rural brigade in Sydney's northern outskirts, listening intently to a briefing about a hazard reduction burn. "It's a fairly small burn, but it's fairly ...

There is a possible threat to lives and properties in parts of Kinross as burning embers from a bushfire are likely to be ...

Google has rolled out a new bushfire layer on Google Maps for Australian users to easily access official bushfire information about active fires. The new layer can be turned on by tapping the layers ...

Huge, fast-moving fires that rip through communities, destroying all in their path, are becoming more common around the globe. Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Greece, and even Hawaiʻi have all suffered ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian fire crews are battling massive bushfires on Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island, which have been burning for six weeks, forcing tourists to flee the island ...

Giant satellite floor maps are helping people prepare for emergencies by showing them a bird's eye view of where threats come ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Residents of a coastal township on Australia's World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached. Since it was sparked by an illegal ...

SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Australia's southeast on Saturday sweated through a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to ban fires in large parts of New South Wales state. The ...