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3:00PM Severe Thunderstorm Update

Our whole of agency response to the Monday afternoon severe storms is ongoing and will likely continue into the tail end of the week. As of 3:00pm this afternoon the...

6:30 AM Severe Thunderstorm Update

The ACT State Emergency Service has received 436 requests for assistance following a severe thunderstorm on Monday evening.   Crews worked through the night to...

2330 Severe Thunderstorm Update

As of 11:30 PM the ACT State Emergency Service has received 436 requests for assistance following a severe thunderstorm impact in the ACT on 3 January 2021. 35 crews...

7:30 PM Severe Thunderstorm Update

As of 7:30 PM the ACT State Emergency Service has received more than 190 requests for assistance following a severe thunderstorm impact in the ACT on 3 January...

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the ACT

The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 5:20 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on the weather radar near Belconnen, Canberra Civic, Hall, Gungahlin and South...

Grass Fire - Oxley

ACT Fire & Rescue, ACT Rural Fire Service and ACT Policing are currently attending to a small grass fire at the top of Oxley Hill in Oxley. The fire is under...

Rescue - Booroomba Rocks, Tennent

ACT Ambulance Service, ACT State Emergency Service and ACT Policing are responding to a rescue incident at Booroomba Rocks, Tennent. Reports a person has fallen of a...

Update - Building Fire Belconnen

ACT Fire & Rescue firefighters have now contained the building fire on Rae Street Belconnen.  Firefighters are working to extinguished two small areas of fire....