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  • World’s largest volunteer force fights Australia’s

    World’s largest volunteer force fights Australia’s wildfires

    World | January 10, 2020 8:36 IST

    If anybody was qualified to make that call, it was Schutz. He began volunteering with the Rural Fire Service in Australia’s New South Wales state some 53 years ago, at the age of 13, back when Land Rovers were used as firetrucks.

  • Australia commits billions of dollars to wildfire recovery

    Australia commits billions of dollars to wildfire recovery

    World | January 06, 2020 12:13 IST

    Australia’s government on Monday said it was willing to pay “whatever it takes” to help communities recover from deadly wildfires that have ravaged the country.

  • Australia wildfire

    Emergency declared in Australia as widfire rages across New South Wales

    World | November 11, 2019 9:29 IST

    Catastrophic fire danger has been declared for Sydney and the Hunter Valley region to the north on Tuesday with severe and extreme danger across vast tracts of the rest of the state. The week-long declaration of a state of emergency gives the Rural Fire Service sweeping powers.

  • wildfires rage across australia

    Wildfires rage across Australia

    World | January 08, 2013 15:43 IST

    Cooma, Australia, Jan 8: Firefighters battled scores of wildfires raging across south-east Australia on Tuesday as authorities evacuated national parks and warned that blistering temperatures and high winds had led to “catastrophic” conditions in some

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