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Fire at timber yard could smoulder for hours, fireys warn

Firefighters are using specialist equipment, including gas detectors and a thermal imaging camera, to monitor the...

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09th Feb. 2021 3:02 PM

Local couple escaped from burning home but lost everything

A well known couple have lost everything in a house fire and now a GoFundMe campaign is calling for support.

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03rd Feb. 2021 2:02 PM

LUCKY ESCAPE: Well known FNC couple Judy and Richard Edwards escaped their home when it caught fire but they lost everyhting. Now a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to assit the rebuild their lives. Photo: Graham Broadhead

A trailer you can set on fire? I’d like to see that

Northern Rivers Fire & Rescue stations have new gear to simulate fires to help with their community education program.

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31st Jan. 2021 12:01 AM

FIRE SAFETY: FRNSW Ballina has one of seven new purpose-built community education trailers across NSW. The trailers were specially designed to ensure a multifunctional, versatile resource that will support firefighters when they are undertaking community engagement activities.

RFS ‘very concerned about spate of structure fires’

A SENIOR firefighter said the high number of building fires since Christmas was a huge concern.

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12th Jan. 2021 12:01 PM

HOUSE FIRE: A senior firefighter said the RFS is concerned about the high number of structures fires occurring since Christmas 2020. On January 7, 2021, the RFS and Fire & Rescue extinguish a fire which destroyed a weatherboard house in Pimlico.

Family 'in crisis': Home destroyed by fire, pets lost

A FIRE has left a family reeling after their home was destroyed and pets lost in the early hours on Monday.

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11th Jan. 2021 8:01 AM

Process failures leave mystery for Lismore house fire case

The coronial inquest of a Lismore man whose body was found after a house fire in 2000 has heard of “inadequacies” and...

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29th Dec. 2020 9:12 AM

Crime prevention officer Senior Constable Michael Hogan (left) and Superintendent Bruce Lyons conduct a doorknock during investigations into the 2000 death of Lismore man Peter Allen.

Fire sees staff and students evacuated from TAFE building

FIREFIGHTERS are at the scene of the educational facility.

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05th Nov. 2020 12:11 PM

Fire crews are at the scene of a TAFE in northern NSW.

Cause of bushfire burning near Kyogle remains unknown

TWO rural fire brigades are fighting a bushfire on Summerland Way.

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05th Nov. 2020 11:11 AM

FILE PHOTO: Firefighters from two RFS brigades are working on extinguishing a bushfire along Summerland Way. Photo: Marc Stapelberg

Man, 25, charged over house fire that killed family dog

A NORTHERN Rivers man will face court over a house fire which destroyed a property and claimed the life of dog.

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05th Nov. 2020 8:11 AM

HOME BURNED TO THE GROUND: A man has been charged over a house fire at Myocum. Photo courtesy of the Mullumbimby RFB.

Teen firey charged with deliberately lighting blazes

THE young RFS volunteer has been accused of deliberately lighting more than a dozen grass fires over the past month.

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05th Nov. 2020 6:11 AM

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