CFA

  • Aircraft prepared for fire response

    Two aircraft stationed in the Colac district are ready to respond over the summer season, including the biggest single-engine helicopter in the world.

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  • STAY SAFE: Celebrate safely and arrive alive

    They’re our rescuers, responders, healers and volunteer helpers—and they’re all the more reason to take care this Christmas.

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  • Burn-off ignites fire season concerns

    “Everything’s ready to burn” Birregurra’s CFA captain Eddie Murnane says it’s going to be a big summer fire season with everything ready to burn, following an out-of-control burn-off this week.

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  • Crews quell Otways blaze

    A fire burning in the Otways for more than a week has been contained by local fire authorities but burnt more than 740 hectares of national park, forest and private land.

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  • Rapid CFA response contains Otways fire

    A rapid response from CFA crews helped contain a bushfire that broke out at Kawarren on Saturday.

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  • Otways on fire: Crews battle two bushfires

    Corangamite group officer Mark Billing has warned of the danger of this year’s fire season, with the Otway Ranges sparking up in two separate bushfires over the weekend.

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  • Residents evacuated in early-morning blaze

    Colac’s emergency responders dealt with a fire that broke out on Churchill Square near the town’s centre in the early hours of yesterday morning.

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  • CFA warning ahead of bushfire season

    A CFA survey has revealed that 45 per cent of Victorians living in bushfire-prone areas including the Otways are not concerned about bushfire safety despite being at increased risk.

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