Firefighting

  • 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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  • Crews working on fires

    FIREFIGHTERS will continue to monitor two fires burning near Lorne over the Christmas break with temperatures set to rise again.

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  • District house fire hits family of eight

    COLAC DISTRICT communities have united to help a family that lost all their belongings and Christmas presents in a house fire this week.

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  • Volunteer shares vivid memories

    A COLAC and district firefighter remembers the eerie feeling the morning of one of the Otway’s darkest days.

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  • Authorities introduce fire restrictions early

    COLAC district residents have until Monday to complete burnoffs on their property with officials bringing forward the start of this year’s fire season.

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  • Managers vow to re-plant cemetery’s burnt hedge

    COLAC CEMETERY’S manager says the cemetery’s fire-damaged hedge could take about five years to re-grow.

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  • Fire damages Colac Cemetery’s hedge

    FIRE has burnt a wide hole in the hedge at Colac Cemetery.

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  • Burning to continue despite fire concern

    THE STATE Government will continue with planned burns in the Colac district, despite a planned burn sparking an out-of-control fire in central Victoria.

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