A hot zone, or an "active area of threat" limiting who could enter, was later established, she said. Mr Wilkinson said he heard about the hot zone from a police officer positioned outside the ...

In the first of five weeks of a coronial inquest into the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing,  the court heard about the ...

For that you'll have to go to Richard Preston's riveting The Hot Zone, the book that started it all. Lurking beyond the bounds of Preston's brilliant reportage are sobering, and compelling ...

The four-propeller drone sitting briefly on a rocky and dusty surface in Central America in early March had an impressive diameter of nearly 7 1/2 feet. From afar, however, it appeared as just ...

Paramedics received thousands of “quite horrific” calls for help on the day of the fatal Bondi Junction attack. Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured 10 during a stabbing rampage at ...

The court was told a police officer present on the day recalled in a statement that an unknown senior ambulance officer had asked him if the area was still a hot zone. The police officer told him ...

Suspicions that there was a second assailant led to Mr Armitage, a NSW Ambulance assistant commissioner, declaring the scene as a 'hot zone'. The declaration, 52 minutes after Cauchi was shot dead ...

The concerns caused NSW Ambulance to declare the centre a “hot zone” at 4.30pm, resulting in paramedics being ordered to stand down and/or leave the site, and no further ambulances being ...

Wilkinson said he learned the centre was being treated as a “hot zone”, meaning paramedics could not go inside as Tactical Operations Unit police swept the area. “There were snippets of ...