Emergency Services

13 Feb 2025

Know the rules using machinery during today’s total fire ban

TODAY February 13 is a day of Total Fire Ban in the Central district including Bass Coast Shire and French Island when special restrictions and conditions apply to the use of farm machinery and other equipment. Here are some details on what you can...

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13 Feb 2025

Bushfire reported in Wonthaggi wetlands close to town

TEN fire trucks have responded to a ‘small’ bushfire in the Wonthaggi Wetland Reserve at 3pm today, Thursday, February 13, a Total Fire Ban day in the Central region of the state, including Bass Coast. The fire is located behind the Wonthaggi...

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13 Feb 2025

Train crashes into trailer and excavator near Sale

POLICE are at the scene of a collision in Kilmany, 35km east of Traralgon on Tuesday, morning February 11. Officers were told a trailer carrying an excavator, being towed by a truck on Princes Highway, was struck by an oncoming passenger V-line...

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11 Feb 2025

Phillip Island SES answered 45 calls after ‘mini cyclone’

AN INTENSE storm cell, which touched down in a discrete area of Phillip Island last Sunday, February 2, shortly after 5pm, has been described as a “mini cyclone” by affected residents mostly in the Ventnor area on the east side of the island...

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05 Feb 2025

Hailstones and storm warning for Bass Coast and South Gippsland

VIC Emergency has issued a Thunderstorm Warning for West and South Gippsland, including the Bass Coast Shire area with conditions likely to produce large hailstones and damaging winds. Already some storm cells have been sweeping across the area and...

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02 Feb 2025

‘Relief and gratitude’ after The Gurdies bushfire

WHEN The Gurdies bushfire blew up into a seriously dangerous inferno at 4.55pm on Friday, December 20, local resident Mahanama Wijayasiri was safely 30 minutes away from his home, on Gurdies-St Helier Road, at Pakenham. But the dramatic escalation...

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01 Feb 2025

Practised response to hazardous material alert at Phillip Island

A COMMON ingredient in the manufacture of a wide range of products, phosphoric acid is also rated as a “severe marine pollutant” that can severely affect human health through the inhalation of mist, ingestion and contact with skin and eyes...

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30 Jan 2025

Practice makes perfect for brigades at Port Welshpool boat fire

TRAINING in exactly the situation encountered at Port Welshpool on Wednesday this week, January 22, when a recreational fishing boat caught fire and ultimately burnt to the waterline, likely saved the Port Welshpool fishing jetty. Brigades from...

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23 Jan 2025

Discover your purpose on the water

IT’S not for the faint-hearted. The calls come at all hours, all days and all seasons, the beautiful sun-shining summers and the rough wild winters. But it’s exhilarating. And last Thursday, January 16, was no different when members of the Port...

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21 Jan 2025

Fire in Wonthaggi wetlands

WONTHAGGI Fire Brigade, paramedics and police are currently on the scene of a fire in Wonthaggi Wetlands at the end of Poplar Street where a column of smoke can be seen rising through the trees. Vehicles are advised to avoid the area with some...

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16 Jan 2025

Wonthaggi bushfire linked to Inverloch pathway works

A FIRE which broke out in bushland on the outskirts of Wonthaggi last Wednesday, January 8, has been linked to construction work on the Bass Coast Shire Council’s $7.7million Inverloch to Wonthaggi pathway. According to a spokesman for the CF...

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10 Jan 2025

Stay Informed Yanakie

AN ADVICE message has been issued for Sandy Point and Yanakie this afternoon after a bushfire at Yanakie was quickly brought under control. The bushfire is travelling from Millar Road and Hourigan Camp Lane in a westerly direction towards Shallow...

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