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Goodwood man charged over Streaky Bay fires
An Adelaide man has been arrested for allegedly lighting four fires in scrub near Streaky Bay on the state’s west coast.
An Adelaide man has been arrested for allegedly lighting four fires in scrub near Streaky Bay on the state’s west coast.
Nine South Australian districts have severe bushfire warnings in place today as a burst of warm and windy weather, captured from the remnants of tropical cyclone Seroja, puts the state on high alert.
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A house and a shed have been destroyed and two people injured in a bushfire that shocked fire crews with the speed at which it burnt through crop and grassland southeast of Adelaide.
South Australia’s Country Fire Service volunteer numbers have slowly declined every year since 2015 – but the CFS says the worrying trend has had no impact on firefighting capabilities and the nation’s bushfire crisis has prompted many new inquiries about joining up this season.
Two army helicopters will arrive on Kangaroo Island on Monday to ship in vital supplies to remote parts of the fire-ravaged island.
UPDATED | Properties have been lost, firefighters injured and more land blackened after a night of horrific conditions across the Kangaroo Island bushfires, but the emergency has eased.