Disasters

  • Disaster planning keeping disability in mind

    Disaster and emergency planning will be able to take into account the needs of people with disabilities, thanks to a new Colac district program.

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  • Otway community’s darkest Christmas

    THE BLAZE which destroyed 116 homes on Christmas Day is “still a big fire with a lot of potential”, a top firefighter has warned.

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  • Community unites to help evacuated people

    Apollo Bay and coastal communities for banded together to help people evacuated during the Christmas Day fires.

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  • Colac tourists stuck after volcano erupts

    A VOLCANIC eruption has left Colac and district residents stranded in Bali, with airline companies cancelling flights in and out of Denpasar Airport.

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  • Teens return from Nepal quake

    COLAC DISTRICT teenagers Camille Thomas and Grace Graham have returned home after surviving an earthquake which devastated Nepal.

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  • Colac man raises money for Nepal

    COLAC’S Mukti Timilsina has started raising money for the people of Nepal after an earthquake and avalanches devastated the Asian nation last week.

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  • Colac district teens safe after avalanche

    FORMER Colac students Camille Thomas and Grace Graham are desperately trying to get home after surviving an earthquake which killed more than 4000 people in Nepal.

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  • Family helps disaster victims

    COLAC’S Richard and Jenny Van Niekerk feel blessed the Philippine children they have been helping to support for more than five years are safe following a natural disaster that has killed thousands.

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