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Holiday plans go up in smoke

A caravan attached to a vehicle has been destroyed after catching fire early this morning.District 13 RDO Jason Lawrence said crews from Rowville and Dandenong attended the scene at about 6:20am but...

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Missing fisherman

Coast Guard Portland and Warrnambool have been involved in the search for a missing fisherman off the seas of Port Fairy.Coast Guard vessels have been operational since 0428 hours Thursday morning,...

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Hot fairway

Just before 8:30am on Tuesday 1 July Springvale brigade and MFB Pumper 33 were called to a fire at a Dingley golf course.Golfers at the Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club spotted something different...

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Floating Debris in Port Philip

Queenslciff Coast Guard crews were tasked to search for a reported floating dinghy in Port Philip.A windy Sunday afternoon and Coast Guard Queenscliff receives a task to search for a possible dinghy...

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Plumber plunges in to save the day

A quick thinking plumber has averted a potential gas leak at a child care centre in Monbulk around midday today.District 13 Operations Officer Colin Brown said an elderly couple travelling down Olinda...

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Making 'Safe Mistakes'

Victoria’s fire agencies today launched a campaign that aims to increase awareness of the thousands of preventable home fires that are caused by small mistakes each year.New statistics show that in the...

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Firefighter Stair Climb 2014

The Inaugural Melbourne Fire fighter Stair Climb is coming up fast on September 7th 2014 and will be held at Crown Metropol Hotel in Melbourne.

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Koala rescue hits world headlines

Video of a koala rescue carried out by CFA crews and Wildlife Victoria has hit headlines around the world thanks to video footage of the rescue and social media.

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Tractor crashes into house at Lyndhurst

CFA assisted at the scene where a tractor crashed into a house at Lyndhurst yesterday (02/09).

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Fuel reduction burn in Grampians region

CFA will look to start its planned burning program in the Grampians Region tomorrow.

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30 hectare fire at Nathalia

Following an accidental fire started by a slasher near Nathalia yesterday (25 Nov), Operations Officer Shane Sutton has urged landholders to have appropriate suppression equipment on hand while...

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Hay, that’s a whirlwind

Fire crews – including one waterbombing helicopter and the Firebird fixed wing plane – ‘hit it hard, hit it fast’ yesterday in response to a 45-hectare stubble fire in Avenmore (near Elmore) which also...

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Dog stuck in ground pipe

Firefighters helped to save a dog stuck in a ground pipe in Winchelsea today.

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Crews rescue husband and wife from Ballarat blaze

Firefighters from Ballarat Fire Station were just about to leave the station after finishing their Monday night Brigade training last night, when they got the call for a nearby restaurant fire.

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Epping tip fire sparked by spontaneous combustion

Spontaneous combustion is believed to be the cause of a fire which started in a mulch pile at a green waste facility at Epping yesterday.

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Large rubbish pile alight at Sunbury

Yesterday, just after 3pm (24th November), Sunbury Fire Brigade were paged to assist the EPA in dousing a burnoff in Deverall Road in Sunbury. This was deemed to not be an emergency, so a Code-3...

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One thousand hay bales destroyed

More than 1,000 hay bales and a hay shed have been destroyed in a fire that started just before midday yesterday (25 November) in a hay shed at Mologa near Bendigo.

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Hot spot at Loy Yang

CFA is currently at AGL Loy Yang near Traralgon assisting with a coal “hot spot” in the Loy Yang mine.

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Valentine's Day blaze

For the second Saturday afternoon in a row, Edithvale volunteers, supported by Patterson River staff, were called to a fire at opposite ends of the same street in Aspendale Gardens.

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Hazardous incident on Hume Freeway

Emergency services were called to a car accident on the Hume Freeway between Clonbinane and Wandong at approximately 6.40am Thursday 26 February.

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