Firefighting

  • Otways towns work on fire refuges

    TWO Otways towns are a step closer to establishing last-resort bushfire refuges.

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  • Family lucky to escape fire

    AUTHORITIES say a Colac family is lucky to be alive after a kitchen fire filled their house with smoke.

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  • Workers quell mill fire

    QUICK-THINKING timber factory workers prevented a machinery engine fire from spreading throughout a Colac mill.

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  • Wet weather takes heat out of burns

    FIREFIGHTERS have burnt off more than 6500 hectares of the Otways this financial year.

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  • New truck boosts brigade

    A NEW truck will boost a Colac district fire brigade.

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  • Warning follows burnoffs

    FIRE authorities have warned landowners to monitor their burnoffs after crews had to control private burnoffs in the Colac district.

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  • Koalas die in Wye River burnoff

    THE death of koalas in a State Government burnoff near Wye River have angered wildlife activists.

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  • Illegal fires keep Colac brigades busy

    FIRE restrictions will remain in force in Colac and district for at least another week, despite people lighting burnoffs without permits.

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