Grave fears are held for 17 people missing in East Gippsland while huge blazes in Victoria and NSW threaten to create a monster inferno. Premier Daniel Andrews has declared a State of Disaster as authorities urge those in high-risk fire areas “to leave now”.
Two sets of parents and a couple had their Buchan properties wiped out by the fires, but they are considering themselves among the lucky ones as they escaped with their lives.
An “amazing” great-grandfather and town “larrikin” who was painting his Buchan home before the horror East Gippsland fires broke out, has been found dead inside his fire-ravaged home.
Locals believe the bushfires destroying the tiny town of Buchan could burn until February if heavy rain doesn’t fall soon, given the dense bush which surrounds the community.
Hundreds of thousands of Melburnians flooded to the CBD to celebrate the start of the new year, with the fireworks proving to be a hit with revellers of all ages.
Only a chook pen and an outdoor stage were spared as fire rolled through Clifton Creek on Tuesday, destroying at least four homes and the local primary school.
Police are combing a neighbourhood in Melbourne’s east for the weapons used to savagely bash a grandfather in front of his family on Christmas Day.
A hardcore group of youth criminals have been arrested in a four-day police swoop due to fears they could “inflict significant harm” on the public over the New Year’s break.
The relatives of Jess West and her five-year-old son Deighton, who were killed in a horrific truck collision on Sunday, are mourning the loss of the pair and are rallying around the second son who survived the tragedy.
Police and emergency services are desperately searching for a Victorian man who went missing in a remote part of Queensland after his car became bogged in a creek where crocodiles have been spotted.
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