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Gold Coast Water Police assisted two men who were forced to abandon their vessel after it caught fire off the Gold Coast last night.
Around 6.10pm police received a report of a fire onboard a 52-foot vessel, around four nautical miles off Mermaid Beach.
The two men onboard fled the boat into a dinghy before [...]
An elderly woman has been taken to hospital following a fire at a residential tower block in Birmingham Friday evening.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to Clydesdale Tower, Holloway Head at approximately 9.40pm.
An ambulance, together with a paramedic officer and the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) attended the scene.
A West [...]
Around 7.30pm last night police were called to a house fire on Seymour Street at Cloncurry.
Two males, a Senior Constable and a Constable, and a female Constable were first on scene and were told there may still be a man inside the house.
The three officers entered the smoke-filled house and pulled a 40-year-old [...]
A man was treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns after he was rescued from a Glen Iris house fire.
On February 12 at 2.45pm, firefighters responded to calls of a fire on Station Avenue near Summerhill Road. The blaze involved a single storey weatherboard house of 16 squares.
Aggressive firefighting tactics contained the fire [...]
At approximately 1.20am this morning, the Tasmania Fire Service was alerted to a report of a Structure Fire at Flamenco Circle, Glenorchy.
Prior to fire crews arriving, quick thinking neighbours forced entry to the premise to check for any occupants that may be inside, before being forced out by smoke.
Upon arrival, crews from [...]
Three police officers were hospitalised with smoke inhalation after attending a fire on the central coast.
About 9.50pm (Friday 1 February 2013), police from Brisbane Local Area Command responded to reports of a fire at a large commercial building on Mann Street, Gosford.
Attending police were forced back due to a large amount of [...]
Ambulance Victoria is encouraging people near current bushfire areas to be wary of a smoke inhalation injury.
Manager Emergency Management and Air Ambulance Paul Holman advises that smoke inhalation can cause serious respiratory complications.
‘The children, the elderly, people with asthma, emphysema and heart disease are at a greater risk of being affected by smoke [...]
Two houses in Coburg have been destroyed by fire, with several residents receiving treatment for smoke inhalation.
On Wednesday January 2 just after 4pm, MFB firefighters responded to a fire in Fowler Street, Coburg.
They arrived on scene to find a brick residence fully involved in fire. Three children and their father had evacuated from [...]
The London Fire Brigade said it believes a Christmas Day blaze, from which firefighters rescued six young children, was caused by a joss stick.
The Brigade was first called to the fire, which was on Clifton Road in Southall, west London, at 1953 on Christmas Day.
It is thought the children were all under the [...]
Mandy the greyhound became an overnight media sensation yesterday when news that extended care paramedic Sandy Macken had saved her life hit the media.
Emergency services attended an address in Shepherd St, Marrickville shortly after 11am where they treated a 46-year-old male for burns to his head and left arm. He was transported to [...]
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