House Fires

A 61-year-old Tweed Heads woman was served a notice to appear in court on one count of "owners must install smoke alarms" over the fire, which killed five boys and their father on Russell Island last year.

A 61-year-old Tweed Heads woman has been accused of not having compliant smoke alarms in the home, where six people lost their lives.

Police say two female officers were bitten by a woman, while another officer was attacked by a dog, as a home was engulfed in flames in South Hedland.

Investigators use accelerant detection dogs to check for a number of spots in the house where the fire may have been ignited, spread rapidly and left a man in a critical condition.

A woman dies but her two children are saved by a neighbour smashing a window as a blaze guts a house in Roleystone in Perth's south-east, with police saying the fire is not suspicious.

Fire investigators are working to establish the cause of a blaze that damaged a Brisbane home overnight, which a witness said may have been sparked by an e-scooter battery.

Shannon James Doble, 42, appeared via video-link less than 12 hours after his mother, Nerol, died from injuries suffered in the blaze in southern New South Wales.

Police call for information from the public after a body is found following a house fire in Hobart's northern suburbs.

Police made dozens of arrests but say they were generally happy with behaviour at New Year's events. 

The Rockhampton community rallies around Bronwyn Nunn and her children, after her husband Tony died from cancer and just hours later a fire destroyed their home.

Police are investigating a house fire in the Indigenous community of Woorabinda.

Firefighter Michael Kidd, 51, was among the first crews responding to the Grose Vale house, which became engulfed in flames, just before 8am.

Landlords are not legally required to check alarms in more than 40 per cent of rentals in Victoria, and both a tenants' group and a property investors' association agree this needs to change.

A coroner has recommended sweeping changes to Victorian rental laws after a man died trying to escape a fire in a property that was not fitted with a smoke alarm.

Fire investigators, ignitable fuel detection dogs, and police officers are sifting through the debris of a unit in Young to work out how the blaze started.

In the decade since Emerald's Sharron Booth first installed solar panels there have been changes to how their isolators are kept safe. That became all too apparent when flames engulfed part of her rooftop system one recent weekday morning.

A four-year-old boy dies following a shed fire in Geelong on Sunday which killed two of his siblings. A fourth sibling remains in a critical condition in hospital.

A man is fighting for life and a woman is hospitalised with burns after a fire at a house in suburban Adelaide on Monday evening.

The aunt and uncle of two children who died and two others who were severely injured in a shed fire in Geelong say their mother tried to save them as she pulled them from the flames.

Police say it's believed four children were in a shed at Corio, in Geelong, when it caught fire. Emergency services were called just after 10:30am.

A fire that forced the evacuation of a Hobart apartment complex amid a thunderstorm overnight started in a kitchen on the ground floor, authorities say.

Police say they have charged a 48-year-old man with murder, a day after a woman's body was found at a house fire at Aldinga Beach.

Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of a fire south of Adelaide after the body of a 38-year-old woman was discovered.

A crime scene is established at the scene of an early morning fire in Bundaberg.

Fire and Rescue NSW commander Paul Dorin was a full-time carer for his mother with dementia when he realised there was a serious threat facing elderly residents, a lack of working fire alarms and blankets.