Firefighting

  • Driver prevents pub burning down

    AN OBSERVANT delivery driver has helped stop Birregurra’s pub from burning down.

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  • Grass fire threatens three properties

    POLICE are yet to determine the cause of a grass fire which threatened three properties east of Colac.

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  • Firefighters save Cressy homes

    FIREFIGHTERS’ quick actions have saved homes at Cressy from a grassfire.

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  • One fire refuge but more still needed

    COLAC Otway Shire has its first last-resort bushfire refuge at Apollo Bay but high-risk towns are still going without.

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  • Power cut after pole fires

    POWER pole fires caused electricity outages across the Colac district.

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  • Firefighters battle Grampians blaze

    COLAC district firefighters are helping at a 25,000-hectare bushfire in the Grampians.

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  • Lightning sparks district fires

    MORE than 100 lightning strikes caused fires and hot spots across the Colac district.

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  • Blown tyre and bird start fires

    A BLOWN tyre and a bird started grass fires in the Colac district.

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