Bunyip fire updates

Funding to support landholders with planting a variety of indigenous nectar-producing plants throughout the catchment in urban and rural gardens and within existing wildlife corridors. Parks Victoria website. You are here: Home Fire, flood and emergencies Bushfire recovery and information Bunyip Complex bushfires - recovery of the environment. Jump to… Bushfire recovery - latest updates Property clean up - VicSES chainsaw competency maintenance Land management grants Grants available through Westernport Catchment Landcare Network Shelterbelt design guidelines for climate change Nest boxes for native fauna Further support and resources for landholders Updates on Bunyip State Park.

Bunyip Complex bushfires - recovery of the environment. Bushfire recovery - latest updates For the most recent updates visit the Latest updates web page. Property clean up - VicSES chainsaw competency maintenance The SES have offered assistance with chain sawing related to: uprooted trees with branches with foliage still attached trees hooked up in another tree trees felled and on the ground with branches attached logs on the ground in good condition.

Land management grants For more info visit Cardinia Shire weed grants Cardinia Environment Coalition CEC can also assist fire-affected residents with funding for the revegetation of indigenous tube stock. Contact Lindsay McNaught for more information and to see if you are eligible at mcnaughtlindsay gmail. If leaving, you should take the Dargo Road and head south towards Sale. Bushfire - Advice for Bunyip State Park. The mother-of-one who has volunteered for more than 13 years said the crews had been surrounded by a wall of flames in the moments before she filmed the scene.

There are emergency personnel with appliances and multiple aircraft, fighting the fire which started on Friday afternoon as several different fires which then joined. An emergency warning remains in place for a fire at Budgeree in the Latrobe Valley which has burnt about hectares. Hot temperatures are expected again across the state today, with the ban in place until midnight. The fire danger rating is severe for the central district and very high for the rest of the state.

Kelpie puppy Jimmy alerted owners Margaret and Richard Pointing as the fire approached their acre Labertouche property, forcing them to flee to the Drouin relief centre about 6am Sunday. The couple took with them photos of their parents and a teddy Mr Pointing was given by his aunt as a child. Other possessions packed a blue horse float, which was used to ferry a dog, two cats and a cockatoo to safety during the Black Saturday fires.

In nearby Jindivick, The Jindi Caf, has cooked extra roasts today in case exhausted firefighters needed to eat, rest and recharge. The cafe also served as a pit stop for locals picking up a few groceries as they prepared for the wind change. Yesterday, Sunday Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight and his family were among families forced to flee homes at Tonimbuk. A motorcycle helmet used by veteran actor Paul Cronin in a s TV show was saved from a Tonimbuk home as his daughter, Jules, scrambled to rescue items.

Cronin used the helmet in popular TV series Matlock Police, a show he starred in before becoming more widely known in The Sullivans. Overnight, properties have been lost. Bunyip bushfire is hectares in size with emergency personnel working to contain it. News National. Rebecca Masters. Luke Cooper. Tweet Facebook Mail. The bushfire in the State Park, which was sparked on Friday by lightning strikes, yesterday burnt through more than 10, hectares as it raced towards the Princes Freeway and at least three buildings were damaged or lost.

In the surrounding area, 23 schools have been closed today as well as 15 early childhood centres, and the Princes Freeway remains shut at Nar Nar Goon and Drouin. The Yinnar South bushfire is still burning out of control, has torn through hectares and is still growing larger.

Victorian emergency fire crews have this morning been relocated from other areas to help fight the blaze, and authorities have said that residents need to leave now before conditions worsen further. With the wind change the fire has moved further east of Licola, although another wind change possible for later today could again hamper firefighting efforts.

The Licola Road has been closed to everyone apart from firefighting crews and authorities have urged residents to seek shelter. What you need to know. A wind change tonight will push the fire east.