Bushfires have razed hundreds of buildings across southeast Australia, authorities said Sunday, as they confirmed the first death from the disaster. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heatwave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bushfire rips through Mount Lawson State Park in Australia's Victoria state (Handout) (Handout/Forest Fire Management ...

Flames from a bushfire at Mount Lawson State Park in Bungil, Victoria, illuminated the night on Thursday, January 8, timelapse footage shows. This video, taken by Chris Manning of Star Visuals on the ...

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Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for flames to spread across the landscape. But sometimes the relationship flips: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters warned millions of Australians of "catastrophic" bushfire dangers as they battled multiple blazes stoked by a ...

SYDNEY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Three people are unaccounted for as out-of-control bushfires rage in the Australian state of Victoria, destroying homes and burning through vast swathes of bushland, ...

Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside. Temperatures ...

CATASTROPHIC BUSHFIRES. This handout photo from the CFA Wandong Fire Brigade posted on their Facebook page taken on Jan. 7, 2026 and released on Jan. 8 shows a bushfire burning near the town of ...

Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside. Temperatures ...