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Firefighters Battle Western Australia Bushfires
Lightning and at least one deliberate fire triggered multiple blazes that destroyed thousands of hectares, while a critical emergency website outage lasted over two hours, officials said.
- On Sunday, multiple emergency-level bushfires in southern Western Australia stretched services to capacity while the Emergency WA website and app failed, leaving residents without warnings for more than two hours.
- Since Saturday night, storms produced severe thunderstorms and damaging gusts, causing power outages peaking at 115,000 properties and lightning likely sparked Nambeelup and Chittering blazes, Assistant Commissioner Paul Carr, DFES said.
- DFES incident controller Murray McBride said the Warradarge blaze has razed at least 7,000 hectares, with about 250 firefighters and close to 150 emergency services personnel responding.
- Western Power said more than 24,000 homes in the Mid West and Geraldton lost power, with around 15,000 still affected by 4pm, while Telstra reported 31 sites were 'down' on Monday and Big Don's feared losing 5,000 kilograms of meat.
- Nationals WA urged urgent action as Shane Love, Member for Mid‑West, said the 2021 review of outages affecting around 107,000 Western Power customers shows the system is fragile with busy triple zero emergency lines.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right4Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution45% Right
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- 45% of the sources lean Right
45% Right
L 33%
C 22%
R 45%
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