Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Tahiti plane crash voice recorder located

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Air Space Accidents, Vic, French Polynesia

  Search teams have located the cockpit flight recorder of a passenger aircraft that crashed last week killing at least 14 people, after taking off from the island of Moorea off French Polynesia.

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• Worker dies in cherry picker accident

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:29 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Workplace Accidents, Brisbane 4000, Indooroopilly 4068

  A 55-year-old road maintenance worker has been crushed to death while working with a cherry picker under Brisbane's Western Freeway.

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• House explosion kills Sunshine Coast woman

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:28 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Home Accidents, Residential Fires, Pomona 4568

  A woman has been killed when two explosions ripped through her unit on the Sunshine Coast overnight.

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• Oxfam fears worsening Asian floods defences

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Floods, Bangladesh, Nepal

  Aid agency Oxfam says badly designed flood defences may have worsened during the recent south Asian flooding.

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• Explosion derails Russian train, dozens injured

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:18 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Rail Accidents, Russian Federation

  An explosion has derailed a Russian train travelling between Moscow and St Petersburg, injuring dozens of passengers, officials say.

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• Four Swiss air controllers convicted over 2002 jet crash

  Published: September 4, 2007, 8:07 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Air Space Accidents, Law Crime Justice, Courts Trials, Germany, Russian Federation, Switzerland

  A Swiss court found four air traffic control managers guilty of manslaughter over a 2002 mid-air accident that killed 71 people, most of them Russian children.

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• Felix weakens, Henriette crosses land in Mexico

  Published: September 4, 2007, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Cyclones, Emergency Incidents, Weather, Cyclone, Storm, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua

  As Hurricane Felix continues to lose strength, it is Mexico's turn to endure the latest hurricane of the season, Henriette.

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• Aussie hospitalised after Bangkok hotel fire

  Published: September 5, 2007, 12:39 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Fires, Thailand

  An Australian man remains in hospital in Bangkok after a fire at a city hotel.

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• Dick Smith fears worst for missing Fossett

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:26 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Air Space Accidents, United States

  Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith says it does not look good for missing American adventurer, Steve Fossett.

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• Search for Fossett to resume at daybreak

  Published: September 5, 2007, 8:26 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Air Space Accidents, United States

  A search for missing record-breaking US adventurer Steve Fossett is set to resume at first light in the Nevada Desert.

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• Chopper forced to land on housing estate

  Published: September 5, 2007, 7:22 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Air Space Accidents, Australia, Vic, Cranbourne 3977

  A helicopter had to make an emergency landing on a housing estate south east of Melbourne last night.

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• Victoria's green drought continues

  Published: September 5, 2007, 7:03 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Drought, Rural, Agricultural Crops, Australia, Vic

  Weather experts say Victoria is experiencing a 'green drought', with earlier rains masking just how dry the state remains.

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• Crane fire on Tullamarine Freeway

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Fires, Industrial Fires, Australia, Vic, Coburg 3058

  Two men have escaped uninjured after a mobile crane caught fire on the Tullamarine Freeway north of Melbourne overnight.

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• Shift workers 'at greater risk' of road accidents

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:13 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Road Accidents, Health, Sleep, Cairns 4870

  An Australian sleep expert says shift workers face a greater risk of being involved in road accidents.

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• Kilsyth house destroyed by fire

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:12 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Fires, Residential Fires, Australia, Vic, Kilsyth South 3137

  A timber house has been severely damaged by fire in Melbourne's outer east.

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