Tag: Emergency Services
Cash lift for emergency services
Sunbury, Diggers Rest and Macedon Ranges emergency services have been given a boost after receiving grants valued at more than $800,000 for new equipment.
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Siren sounds on risky drivers
Hume and Macedon Ranges police were working long after the final football siren sounded as part of Operation Scoreboard over the recent long weekend.
Hume...
Burn-off warning
Sunbury and Macedon Ranges landowners are urged to take extra care with any burn-offs as the weather warms up.
Macedon Ranges council, in consultation with...
Fireys take giant steps
Macedon Ranges firefighters are stepping up their support for people living with mental illness.
Firefighters from Gisborne, Kyneton, Lancefield, Malmsbury and Riddells Creek are joining...
Ambulance response improving
Ambulances are arriving at code one emergencies in the Macedon Ranges quicker, latest figures shows.
June quarter ambulance data, released recently, revealed that 65.2 per...
Sunbury CFA life honour
A Sunbury fire brigade stalwart has been honoured with a lifetime membership.
When the Country Fire Authority brigade celebrated its annual awards earlier this month,...
Anxious wait on poddle
The 96-year-old owner of an historic Mount Macedon home that was destroyed by fire earlier this month is facing another heartbreaking situation – Sienna,...
Jess takes a leading role
Kyneton Country Fire Authority brigade’s first female officer isn’t fazed by much – but knowing she is the first woman to hold a post...
Three rescued from fire
Police helped save three people and a dog from a house fire in Werribee on Tuesday.
Detectives from the Wyndham Crime Investigation Unit were on...
Fire rips through historic Kyneton house
Fire has ripped through a 160-year-old homestead recently renovated by former television personality Tonia Todman.
The blaze which heavily damaged the homestead early Monday was...
Guy weighs in on crime strife
Harsher punishment for disrespectful behaviour in court, naming and shaming repeat youth offenders and a maximum security prison are among solutions to Victoria’s crime...
Upgrade win for Sunbury SES
Sunbury emergency service volunteers will get some much-needed improvements, thanks to community support and a government grant.
State Emergency Service volunteers will receive more than...
Ambulance responses need to pick up
Three months after recording the fastest response times in five years, ambulance services have gone backwards in the Macedon Ranges, opposition Parliamentarians claim.
New Ambulance...
Cops flat out as rock fans hit the road
Police are disappointed the road safety messages are not getting through to some motorists following the weekend’s operation Thunder Road.
Motorists were urged by police...
Diggers Rest in the line of fire
An out-of-control grass fire swept across paddocks and threatened homes near the Bulla-Diggers Rest Road last Saturday, with 34 fire trucks and four air...
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Funding gives kids strong start
More children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds will receive support to access and attend kindergarten across 25 councils including Hume.
Children Minister Lizzie...
