Posts in Category: Emergency services
Frontline focus on family violence
WANGARATTA police will aim for a higher reporting rate of family violence across the region as a result of the state-wide launch of the family…
CFA families break-in new training facility
COUNTRY Fire Authority (CFA) members brought around 70 of their family members along to Wangaratta’s practical area drill (PAD) facility open day event on Sunday…
CFA training facility re-opens after major $3.5m upgrade
AFTER 18 months, Wangaratta’s Country Fire Authority (CFA) practical area drill (PAD) has completed its $3.5 million upgrades and was reopened for trainees across the…
Drones to lift police presence
AIRBORNE drones will help lift Wangaratta police’s presence in coming months.
Police keen to build on their relationship with community
LOCAL police were joined by members of the community for morning tea on Monday to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in celebration of…
Truck fire shuts down Hume Freeway
FIREFIGHTERS were forced to close-off the Hume Freeway for three hours to extinguish an inferno which consumed a prime mover carrying packaged food near Byawatha…
Quick response contains motel blaze to one unit
COUNTRY Fire Authority (CFA) firefighters from Wangaratta and Glenrowan were quick to bring a destructive single unit fire under control at Wangaratta’s Gardenview Lodge Motel…
MPs split over CFA split
STATE upper house members elected to represent Northern Victoria remain split over controversial legislation proposing to restructure Victoria’s fire services.
Road blitz for safety sake
THE horrific increase in the road toll this year, not only in Victoria, but across Australia has police out in force this long weekend.
Captain hopeful all will benefit
WANGARATTA South Fire Brigade captain Garry Nash is hopeful the State Government’s bid to legislate a new organisation, Fire Rescue Victoria, will have a positive…
HAND CRUSHED
A WANGARATTA man was rushed to a Melbourne hospital on Sunday night with non-life threatening injuries after his hand became caught in a paint machine.
Grocery grab delivers hope for all, as winter needs rise
ORGANISERS of Saturday morning’s Grab A Grocery event at Woolworths and Coles supermarkets in Wangaratta have been astounded by the generosity of local shoppers.