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Apartment complex fire in Turner

ACT Fire & Rescue is at the scene of a fire inside an apartment complex in Turner. Fire crews were alerted to the incident in Watson Street at 12:31pm. Update to...

Update - Dickson College evacuation

About 700 students had to be evacuated from Dickson College. No one was injured. The damage has been confined to the electrical switchboard. ACT Fire & Rescue crews...

Dickson College evacuation

Students from Dickson College on Phillip Avenue in Dickson have been evacuated as a result of an electrical fire in a switchboard. ACT Fire & Rescue crews will...

Update two - Fire in Red Hill

Correction - The fire was in a upstairs bedroom and not the kitchen as previously stated. The small fire was started after sheeting came into contact with a...

Update - Fire in Red Hill

Fire crews arrived at the property to find the fire, located in the kitchen, had already been extinguished. Firefighters are currently ventilating smoke from the home.

Fire in Red Hill

ACT Fire & Rescue is responding to reports of a house fire in Red Hill. The alarm was raised about the fire in Cygnet Crescent at 9:55pm. Update to follow.

Update three - Fyshwick hazardous incident

Tests on the substance found at the Fyshwick Mail Centre have revealed it is not a hazardous biological agent. The quarantine is no longer in place.

Update - Fyshwick hazardous incident

Five people have possibly been exposed to the unknown substance but are showing no signs of ill health. More than 100 people have been quarantined in the...

Fyshwick hazardous incident

ACT Fire & Rescue crews are at the Fyshwick Mail Centre on Canberra Avenue, after an unknown substance was found in a package. The building and staff have been...