Bürgermeister Frey sei „seiner klaren gesetzlichen Pflicht nachgekommen“, eine Truppe mit mindestens 1,7 Beamten pro 1.000 Einwohner zu unterhalten, urteilte das Gericht.
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Devastated residents returned to what’s left of their multi-million dollar homes less than 24 hours after a wildfire ripped through the community of Laguna Niguel.
Heartbreaking images captured the moment residents realized they had lost everything. The community’s former mayor Fred Minagar described the once quiet community as being like ‘war-zone.’
A woman who raised her family in a home that has been reduced to rubble said she wasn’t sure if they would try to rebuild their $3 million house.
Concerns are growing for the future of Byron Bay as destructive flash flooding continues to wreak havoc in the popular holiday town.
The flood emergency continues to unravel across northern NSW with residents rushing to salvage anything they can in the famous tourist town.
The weather event has dumped up to 400mm of rain within a 24-hour period on the region, with floodwaters engulfing entire homes and businesses on Wednesday morning.
Terrifying footage of Byron’s CBD shows waist-deep brown water
After retiring to the Norfolk coast, Lance Martin soon grew used to the deafening sound of waves crashing against the cliffs 120 ft away from his two-bedroom bungalow.
He accepted that the erosion they caused would whittle away his garden as the years passed. It was the price he paid for his plum position overlooking the sea.
What he was not expecting, however, was to hear a ‘rumbling’ underfoot as he put the kettle on one evening in March 2018
With her face pressed close to the window pane and in a strong voice belying her 99 years, care home resident Frances Heaton reads aloud from the piece of paper fluttering in her hand.
It’s a poem the great-grandmother has composed to describe her desolation at being separated from loved ones during the pandemic.
Filmed at her Yorkshire care home by daughter Linda standing outside, on the other side of the glass, Frances speaks: ‘I’m 99. I enjoyed my life.
