Emergency Management Victoria

  • Fire chopper protects region

    A Helitack firebombing helicopter and a Firebird air attack supervision platform will be positioned in Colac Otway to protect residents this fire season.

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  • Choppers coming for summer

    Emergency Management Victoria has refuted “incorrect and outdated” reports that the state’s water bombing capabilities have been slashed by almost a third.

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  • Outlook predicts drier winter

    It’s set to be a drier and warmer-than-average Victorian winter, the Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook says, despite parts of the state experiencing a wetter-than-normal autumn.

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  • Fires, wild weather and property loss

    More than 16 homes have been destroyed, 30 to 40 sheds burnt and stock killed in devastating fires which ripped through communities west of Colac over the weekend.

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