A heroic firefighter dodged flame-engulfed chickens as he charged through a horror firestorm to save a family of seven trapped inside a burning house, an inquest into NSW's Black Summer bushfires has ...

About 3300 Rural Fire Service members needed counselling last financial year as bushfires tore across the state, destroying thousands of properties and killing 25 ­people between October 2019 and ...

A fortnight after two volunteer firefighters pulled Troy Pauling’s family from a flaming house, the badly burned dad staggered to his feet and threw his bandaged arms around the heroes who, at the ...

American firefighters got a hero’s welcome in Australia. Dozens who arrived at Sydney International Airport this week to assist in battling a series of devastating wildfires were met with cheers from ...

Nathan Barnden thinks anyone in his position would have done the same.

Australian film A Fire Inside, featuring Bega Valley firefighter Nathan Barnden, is launching on the big screen this week. I've grown up in the Bega Valley and I'm a regional daily news reporter on ...

AUSTRALIA is braced for fresh hell as a 100f heatwave gives rise to new wave of wildfires. The country has been ravaged by devastating blazes, with tens of thousands of square miles of bushland ...

EDEN • Thousands of people fled their homes and helicopters dropped supplies to towns at risk of nearby wildfires as hot, windy conditions yesterday threatened already fire-ravaged south-eastern ...

A Bega High School student in south east New South Wales has presented a stirring speech on remembrance and commemoration to be handed a top national award. Nathan Barnden has received the Lions Youth ...

A fortnight after two volunteer firefighters pulled Troy Pauling’s family from a flaming house, the badly burned dad staggered to his feet and threw his bandaged arms around the heroes who, at the ...