Fire season erupts: Fires rip through locations in the Perth metro ...

Residents in Perth’s northeast last night feared they had lost their homes, as a bushfire emergency blanketed the city in smoke, fuelled by the second day of a record November heatwave.

As the mercury hit 37 degrees, the fire near the Gnangara pine plantation threatened homes, sheds and properties, with an evacuation centre established in Quinns Rocks.