Police and Emergencies

  • Hackers kidnap woman on Facebook

    INTERNET hackers have posed as a Colac district woman, demanding money and telling her friends she had been robbed at gunpoint overseas.

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  • Gas threat after car hits house

    POLICE were minutes away from evacuating a Colac street after an out-of-control car ruptured a gas main and crashed into a house.

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  • Join in the fight to cut Victoria’s road deaths

    COLAC and district people can join the fight to cut Victoria’s road toll.

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  • Every road death affects sergeant

    A LEADING Colac road crash investigator says the families and friends of crash victims walk the hardest road through life.

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  • Evacuation fire drill for Lavers Hill

    AN “EVACUATION-STYLE drill” will test a Colac district town’s reaction to a bushfire.

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  • Councillors oppose fire levy collection

    COLAC district’s civic leaders have opposed a State Government fire services levy proposal which could add 30 per cent to ratepayers’ bills.

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  • Smoke triggers alarm at timber mill

    FIREFIGHTERS and staff worked together when smoke caused alarm at a Colac timber mill.

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  • Drivers escape injury in Colac crash

    TWO people were lucky to escape injury in a two-vehicle crash in central Colac.

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