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1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min. 35 sec.) ; 167595379 bytes |
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SEVERAL STATES FACE DOWN BUSHFIRESAs Australia saw record heat and powerful winds create dangerous bushfire conditions, firefighters battled blazes in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.FIRES THREATEN SOUTHERN NSWDangerous fire conditions across southern Australia came to a head in the south of New South Wales, with the area around Nowra threatened.TASMANIA WATCHES FIRE DEVELOPMENTSAs Tasmania monitors the aftermath of its big fires and a number of new ones, Tasmania's Chief Fire Officer Mike Brown joins us from the Tasmania Fire Service headquarters in Hobart.FIRE SERVICE REFLECTS ON BUSY AND DANGEROUS DAYMore than 130 fires have been burning across New South Wales on a day that the state's Rural Fire Service had been warning about, and their Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers joins us to update the day's events.HEAT WAVE CREATES NEW AUSTRALIAN RECORDSAustralia's heat wave has set a new record national average temperature and Alasdair Hainsworth from the Bureau of Meteorology warns the next week may not provide much relief |
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Broadcast 2013-01-08 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Fire extinction -- Safety measures.
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Fire fighters.
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Fire prevention -- Management.
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Fires -- Social aspects.
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Heat waves (Meteorology)
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New South Wales.
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Streaming video
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Knight, Ben, host
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Duffy, Conor, reporter
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Harvey, Adam, reporter
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Abbott, Tony, contributor
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Brown, Mike, contributor
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Cameron, Ben, contributor
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Gash, Joanna, contributor
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Gillard, Julia, contributor
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Hainsworth, Alasdair, contributor
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Holman, Paul, contributor
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Klug, Merl, contributor
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Klug, Terry, contributor
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Lapsley, Craig, contributor
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Nicholls, Freda, contributor
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Rogers, Rob, contributor
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