The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

The year of 2022 marked a year of extreme weather and experts fear things can only get worse in 2023 as climate change accelerates

Celebrations to ring in the new year have been held around Australia with most of the country marking the start of 2023 with good weather and big crowds.

Two fire engines raced to the blaze near Tullybaccart last Friday morning

More than 1,000 homes, including an entire subdivision, burnt to the ground in the Marshall Fire, which spread with devastating speed and ferocity during a time of year not usually associated with wildfires. One year later, Boulder County and its residents are struggling to recover - and worried it might…

People on Union Street in Mansfield say that it was "filled with smoke" following a fire which has caused significant damage to the roof of one property.

When Nunthida Kongreung heard a huge fire had broken out at a Cambodian border town casino-hotel, she started calling her parents who were on vacation there, but nobody answered.

The bodies of 10 of the 27 Thais who died in the casino inferno in Poipet in Cambodia have been returned to the border town of Aranyaprathet as authorities try to tackle congestion at another checkpoint to keep trade flowing between the two countries.

The threat level for a bushfire burning 75 kilometres north-east of Perth is downgraded to a watch and act.

The confirmed death toll from a massive fire at a casino hotel complex in western Cambodia has risen to 25 as search efforts resume

Cambodian rescue teams recovered several bodies on Friday from the charred rooms of a casino-hotel where a fire killed at least 27 people a day earlier, with more than 20 people still missing.

The fire service says that automatic alarm calls will not be attended in the daytime unless backed up by a 999 call under new plans.