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Update - Rock climbers injured in Tharwa

ACT Ambulance Service and ACT Fire & Rescue (ACTF&R) are currently on the scene of a vertical rescue at Booroomba Rocks in Tharwa. One female casualty is located...

Rock climbers injured in Tharwa

ACT Ambulance Service and ACT Fire & Rescue are currently on route to an incident in Tharwa, to extricate injured rock climbers. Crews were alerted to the incident...

Grass fire in Nicholls

Firefighters have extinguished another grass fire in Nicholls. Crews were alerted to the incident on the corner of Colbert Close and Kelleway Avenue just after 5:27pm,...

Small grass fire in Nicholls

ACT Fire & Rescue have extinguished a grass fire in Nicholls. Crews were alerted to the incident on Kelleway Avenue just after 4:20pm, by a call to Emergency Triple...

Update four - Multiple hazard reduction burns

The ACT Emergency Services Agency (ESA) advises smoke visible across parts of Canberra and the ACT today is due to hazard reduction burns in the ACT and across the NSW...

Car and motorcycle crash in Russell

ACT Ambulance Service and ACT Fire & Rescue have responded to a crash involving a car and motorcycle in Russell. Crews were alerted to the incident on the corner of...

Update three - Multiple hazard reduction burns

The Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMS) ACT Parks and ACT Rural Fire Service will continue to undertake hazard reduction burns, weather permitting this...

Woman suffers burns from kitchen fire

A woman has been transported to hospital with minor burns following a kitchen fire in Richardson. The woman suffered burns to her arm when food caught alight on the...

Update two - Multiple hazard reduction burns

The Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMS) ACT Parks and ACT Rural Fire Service will continue to undertake hazard reduction burns, weather permitting this...