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Melbourne Airport security scare delays 100s

Published: August 13, 2007, 7:28 pm

Tags: Emergency Incidents, Melbourne 3000, Melbourne Airport 3045

Hundreds of passengers at Melbourne Airport have been delayed after a parcel was not screened at the Qantas terminal.

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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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Investigator blames mining activity for Beaconsfield rockfall

Published: September 5, 2007, 12:23 am

Tags: Mining, Workplace Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Courts Trials, Judges Legal Professionals, Beaconsfield 7270, Launceston 7250

An independent investigation has found that mining was to blame for seismic activity which led to last year's Beaconsfield Mine disaster.

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Lead contamination report finds 'litany of failures'

Published: September 5, 2007, 11:19 pm

Tags: Mining, Maritime Accidents, Workplace Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Environmental Management, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, State Parliament, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Nationals, Democrats, Greens, One Nation, Minor Parties, Esperance 6450

The State Government has apologised to the people of Esperance after a parliamentry committee attacked several agencies for allowing lead contamination in the town.

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DPI takes precautions over horse manure spill

Published: September 7, 2007, 4:34 am

Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Rural, Quarantine, Sport, Horse Racing, Australia, Nsw, Berkshire Park 2765

A major street in Sydney's north-west was blocked off as hazmat teams decontaminated a horse manure spill on the road, because of fears it might spread the horse flu virus.

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British tourists missing in red centre

Published: September 7, 2007, 10:00 pm

Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents

Northern Territory police are continuing their search to find two missing tourists in Central Australia.

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Woman, 76, survives two weeks in US wilderness

Published: September 7, 2007, 9:15 pm

Tags: Emergency Incidents, Offbeat, United States

A 76-year-old woman was found alive after being stranded for two weeks in a remote mountain region of Oregon, police in the northwestern US state said.

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Wreck access reviewed after diver trapped

Published: September 9, 2007, 8:47 pm

Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Australia, Darwin 0800

A Northern Territory dive operator says it is not safe to dive on a ship which was sunk as an artifical reef in Darwin Harbour last month.

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Sydney explosion fears cool

Published: September 13, 2007, 8:05 pm

Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Fires, Residential Fires, Australia, Nsw, Guildford 2161, Sydney 2000

Emergency services are still at the scene of a fire in western Sydney that has forced the evacuation of more than 100 residents.

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Officials warn of African flood crisis

Published: September 14, 2007, 4:01 pm

Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Floods, Relief Aid Organisations, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Sudan, Togo, Uganda

Several of Africa's poorest countries are in dire need of assistance due to severe floods that have killed more than 200 people and affected a million in recent weeks, officials warned.

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UN appeals for Nicaragua aid following Hurricane Felix

Published: September 14, 2007, 8:40 pm

Tags: Disasters Accidents, Cyclones, Emergency Incidents, Nicaragua

The United Nations has urged the international community to chip in $US39.2 million ($46.6 million) to help Nicaragua recover from Hurricane Felix, which struck earlier this month.

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Workers evacuated amid chemical leak

Published: September 15, 2007, 3:48 am

Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Australia, Vic, Melbourne 3000, West Melbourne 3003

Workers have been evacuated from a 1 kilometre radius around a chemical leak at Coode Island in West Melbourne.

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Toxic fumes force shopping centre evacuation

Published: September 15, 2007, 3:29 am

Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Australia, Perth 6000

A Perth shopping centre has been reopened after toxic fumes spread through the property earlier today.