Posts Tagged ‘bushfires’

Muslim prayer hall damaged, copies of Koran burnt in overnight rampage in Corsica

Tensions mounted in Ajaccio, Corsica’s largest city of some 65,000 residents, after a night of violence in Jardins de L’Empereur. Two firefighters and a police officers were injured in what the authorities described as ambushes by “several hooded youths” in the low-income neighborhood. On Friday afternoon, some 150 demonstrators gathered in front of the police […]

Bushfires in Central Queensland

  7.30pm: Firefighters are attending several large bushfires across Central Queensland CENTRAL ADVICE: Burua – large bushfire Ten Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS) crews are attending to a large bushfire burning in the vicinity of Koowim Drive, Haddock Drive and Glen Lyon Road and Mt Rolo Road at Burua, west of Gladstone. This fire […]

Crews battle hundreds of bushfires across Qld

Updated September 19, 2011 09:18:53 Photo: A thick smoke haze continues to hang over Brisbane from back-burning near Toowoomba in southern Queensland. Video: Crews battle fires as hot weather fuels conditions (7pm TV News Qld) Parts of Queensland are on bushfire alert, with severe fire danger warnings issued for the western parts of the Maranoa […]

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