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This week's news

Selected links to firefighter workplace, industrial, technology and OHS news stories across the last seven days.

Australia
Auswide: Axed insulation scheme fires grow

120 house fires now linked to bungled Fed scheme says Department.
Vic: MFB calls for insulation checks after house fire in Melbourne's east overnight.

WA: Police probe petrol station blaze
An industrial vacuum cleaner explodes at a Perth petrol station

Vic: Bushfires Royal Commission / season roundup:
- Union ' one service' submission to RC: Members' meet.
- Power could be cut to high-risk towns on catastrophic bushfire days.
- Rare agreements in Bushfire Commission on fuel reduction burning.
- Fire air cranes leaving after quiet summer.
- Safer places not certain yet in Gannawarra Shire.
- Black Saturday backburn runs out of control (video).
- Air quality concerns over fuel reduction burns.

NSW: Big hazard reduction
Program continues in south east

Vic: Businesses evacuated amid asbestos fears
Roof collapse during fire at a roller door factory in Nunawading.

Vic: Union, fire brigade in VCAT clash
Union opposes exemption from EO claim.
A Bolt from the blue.

NSW: Country town rat pack:
Roam streets while nude and threatening claim in Murdoch tabloid attack .

International
Russia: Moscow Metro terrorist attack
Firefighters remove remains of victims from the Lubyanka metro station.

Canada: Change arbitration for firefighter wage freeze call
Mayor complains firefighters escape wage-freeze edict.

USA: NYC fire department safety device for 'dirty bomb' response
Blanket for firefighters to contain blasts and impact of high energy radiation sources.

USA: Local firefighters join in air tank reinvention
A new type of oxygen tank for firefighters.

USA: Goat call out
Californian fire department to replace firefighters with eight goats in firebreak operation.

India: Fire hits huge Indian arms depot
One of the Indian army's largest ammunition depots west of Kolkata.

USA: Cancer question complicates 9/11 compensation deal
Toxic dust debate.

India: Firefighters continue to search
More bodies in Stephen Court Kolkata.
Complaints that firefighters were late and ill-equipped to carry out rescue.

USA: Detroit firefighters discuss impact of utility shut-offs.
Flint fire crews facing layoffs battle five blazes.

USA: Firefighters learn rescue skills for hybrid vehicles
New cars - new challenges.

UK: Firefighter to be tried following cow stampede death
To face trial for manslaughter.

USA: Eugene's first all-female firefighter training
Five women sign on to become city's next firefighters.

Greece: Greek firefighter protest (video)
March to the finance ministry and parliament.

USA: Governor axes firefighter training facility
Minnesota state cuts impact.

USA: San Francisco firefighter suits up in stair climb
To highlight lung disease.

China: Firefighters find 21 foetuses and baby bodies under bridge
Jining city medical staff suspended..

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