The 34-year-old was patrolling the boundary of the blaze when a burnt tree fell on the cab of his vehicle just after 8pm.
Melissa Sheil and Claire Middleton
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services has a new boss in the Great Southern, and former district officer Diarmuid Kinsella says he is excited to step into the role of superintendent.
Jacki Elezovich
Gnowangerup’s shire president said a huge community-wide response to a massive bushfire that threatened large parts of the shire has been dampened by the shocking news of young farmer’s death.
Claire Middleton
A young farmer was tragically killed by a falling tree while patrolling a bushfire in Mindarabin on Tuesday
Melissa Sheil
Firefighters have revealed that buildings connected to a culturally significant WA site have been lost in a raging bushfire.
Caleb Runciman
This weekend’s heat and tough conditions for fire crews are a powerful reminder of the importance of bushfire preparedness.
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Motorists are still being urged to seek alternate routes, with locals placed under a Bushfire Advice alert.
Tegwen Bescoby
The blaze forced residents to evacuate and destroyed a shed on Thursday.
About 100 firefighters have been battling bushfires for more than five hours, with the operation expected to go through the night and into tomorrow.
Hannah Cross, Claire Sadler, Caleb Runciman and Jessica Evensen
Firefighters have successfully contained and controlled a large bushfire two days after it broke out in West River and Fitzgerald and sparked an emergency evacuation warning.
Jacki Elezovich and Melissa Sheil
Police have charged two 11-year-old kids over a Geraldton bushfire which destroyed a home and left a trail of destruction last week.
The destruction left behind by the Geraldton bushfire is confronting, but so too are the stories of courage, endurance and community that emerged as the flames closed in on homes across the city.
Josephine Hingst
The extent of damage left behind by the Geraldton bushfire is becoming clear, with investigators confirming the blaze first ignited in Spalding on Friday before tearing through suburbs on Sunday and Monday.
As the smoke finally lifts over Geraldton’s northern suburbs, the scale of destruction left behind by the fast moving weekend bushfire has become starkly visible.
A man in his 60s has died while fighting an out-of-control bushfire in West River, about 400km south-east of Perth.
Jessica Evensen
Residents in parts of West River have been urged to stay alert as a bushfire burns in the area, with authorities warning there is still a possible threat to lives and homes.
Caitlin Vinci
A home has been destroyed but firefighters have saved an aged care facility and a primary school directly in the firing line of a ferocious bushfire believed to have been deliberately lit near Geraldton.
Jessica Evensen, Kate Campbell and Josephine Hingst
While one bushfire emergency has been downgraded, another has emerged, with residents in parts of Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach warned to leave now.
Kate Campbell
Firefighters have been put to the test with the first major bushfires of the season, with several blazes erupting across the State, destroying property and forcing residents to evacuate.
Tahnee Graham and Charlton Hart
‘There has been a number of bushfires already this year, and there has been some arrests over those in the last month’.
A blaze in Marradong, south of Boddington that sparked a bushfire advice alert on Thursday is now contained but not controlled
The Bushfire in Perth’s north has been downgraded to to a watch and act level.
An arsenal of specialist firefighting aircraft has been deployed into WA’s most at-risk communities ahead of what is expected to be a long, dry and difficult bushfire season.
Charlton Hart
West Australians have been warned of an increased risk of fire this summer, with several regions facing heightened threats due to a combination of dry conditions and high fuel loads.
