Emergency Services

10.50PM UPDATE: Two air ambulances have been dispatched to the area.Four people are believed to be injured. UPDATE: A tree is reported to have fallen on a car on the Black Spur. EARLIER REPORT: Five emergency vehicles are responding to a rescue alert near Fernshaw. Emergency Victoria says the request for help came at 9.56am. Earlier today, the Maroondah Hwy was blocked when a tree came down over both lanes.

Helicopters and four emergency vehicles are on their way to an aircraft incident at Piries near Goughs Bay Rd. More to come.

Emergency Victoria has declared an accident scene at Yea as “safe”. The 12.20pm advice on Thursday (July 4) came from an accident scene at the High St-North St intersection, at the western end of the town.

1.50PM FRIDAY UPDATE: Now re-opened. ORIGINAL REPORT: Main Road, Eltham is closed in both directions between Mount Pleasant Rd and Brougham St after a gas main was ruptured. Motorists should use Bolton St to avoid the closure. The closure is under the control of emergency services and will reopen as soon as it is safe

The body of a woman who was a passenger in a fixed wing ultralight aircraft that crashed into Lake Eildon has been found. The fixed-wing ultralight went down about 12:30pm Saturday. The pilot, in his 40s, was rescued and was taken to the Alfred Hospital. The aircraft crashed at Goughs Bay, near Mountain Bay. The

An air ambulance has been sent to a fire at Watsons Rd, Kinglake West. Firefighters are also on the scene, Friday night (8.50pm, Friday)> Crime Watch Victoria says: “Ambulance paramedics are also on scene treating at least one person for burns. Ambulance Victoria has dispatched an air ambulance to the scene to assist with urgent

4.45pm Sunday (Mar. 3) Update: Seven emergency services vehicles are currently attending a 124-hectare bushfire near the Marysville-Woods Point Rd, Cambarville, near the Armstrong Catchment. Emergency Victoria describes the bushfire as “not yet under control”. Another fire, 11km east of Cambarville, had been described as “under control”. A further seven vehicles are currently attending a

A bushfire has been reported at Mountain Creek Track, just north of Kinglake, about 12.40pm Sunday (Mar. 3), reports Emergency Victoria.

As a safety precaution, a large number of Scouts left the Mafeking Rover Park at Caveat, north of Yea, on Saturday (Mar. 2). This follows lightning strikes on Friday night (Mar. 1). As at 6pm Saturday, 10 units were fighting the local fires in the Caveat-Tarcombe area.