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TV newsman Brian Naylor told Kinglake West firemen on the weekend of the 2009 fires.: “We’re all right. We’ll be OK. Go and see the lady down the road. She’s by herself.” The conversation is related in journalist Aaron Landmaid’s report in the Sunday Herald Sun (Feb. 3). It was a plumber who would later
This is the address where we once lived at Flowerdale. I took this photo just days after the Black Saturday fires in 2009, ten years ago. Quite incredibly, the brick house exploded with the heat from the fires, but the adjoining shedding survived. We moved to Flowerdale in 1985, and I celebrated my 30th birthday
We are working on our Commemorative Edition of The Local Paper ahead of the 10th Anniversary of the Black Saturday fires on Thursday (Feb. 7). The Local Paper circulates in the centre of the bushfire area: communities such as Kinglake, Marysville, Flowerdale, Yarra Glen, Murrindindi, Yea, Alexandra, the Diamond Valley, Yarra Glen, Healesville and surrounds.
The State Government will create a new bushfire museum and education centre to raise awareness of the history, stories and lessons of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires as well as other fires. Location of the museum will be the subject of public consultation. The Bushfire Anniversary Advisory Group has recommended creating a bushfire museum with a
The fire, 5kms west of Hazeldene at Flowerdale, has been described as ‘safe’. Eight vehicles have been responding to a 0.1-hectare fire in heavily timbered country, Emergency Victoria advises. The sounds and smells of fire – sirens, aircraft, smoke – have been an uncomfortable reminder for many locals on this first Saturday in February.
Welcome to Dindi Daily, for Saturday, February 2. Our report starts this morning with CFA units attending a small structure fire on Plenty Rd, Mernda, south of the new Junction shopping centre at Bridge Inn Rd. It isn now safe. The return of the historic Black Saturday flag was held on Friday in an impressive
5.50AM SAT.: CFA volunteers are being called to a building fire at Mernda, on Plenty Rd, south of Bridge Inn Rd. Two vehicles are responding to the small fire.
Along with lots of others, I enjoyed the best of times with this man. It is 10 years ago since Bill Morris (and Cathy) passed, writes Local Paper editor Ash Long. The Mayor of Molesworth, unique publican of the “Labour In Vein” hotel – ‘Molo’, owner of a wicked sense of humour, community volunteer, family
The Yea St Pat’s Race Club will this month hold its final meeting in its own right. “Following this race meeting St Pats will combine with the Yea Race Club to form a new club to incorporate the two clubs, and to conduct a Yea Cup Meeting and a St Pats Cup Meeting,” says St
Two fires have been reported this afternoon (Fri.) at Maintongoon, near Bonnie Doon and Woodfield. One fire is reported at the Maintongoon Bush Reserve, the other nearby in Woolshed Rd, Woodfield. Three local CFA brigades are attending.
