Police and Emergencies

  • Safety concerns over town’s bushfire evacuation

    A ONE-MAN protest threatened to bring an evacuation fire drill in the Otways to a standstill.

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  • Police campaign against arson

    POLICE have launched a bushfire arson-prevention campaign and want Colac and district residents to report any suspicious fire activity.

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  • Schoolies season begins at Lorne

    LORNE police are assuring youths that they are there to help, as the coastal town prepares for an annual influx of school leavers.

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  • No charges after baby’s death

    A LEADING homicide investigator says detectives are yet to charge anyone with the death of a Colac baby.

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  • Fire chopper will arrive in December

    COLAC will be the base of a water-bombing helicopter this summer, despite a State Government cut to Victoria’s firefighting aircraft fleet.

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  • District mourns fatal crash victims

    COLAC and district families have felt the shockwaves of one of Victoria’s worst road accidents.

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  • Young drivers should never stop learning

    COLAC’S Nicole Parker says a defensive driving course helped her feel safer on the roads, adding weight to safety campaigners’ calls to improve young drivers’ skills.

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  • Fire victim shares traumatic story

    CRESSY’S Joyce Horne can still remember the morning of February 12, 1977, when she lost her home in a grass fire and shares her story for this week’s Fire Action Week.

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