NewsBite

Melbourne emergency

Advertisement
The January 14 landslide in McCrae resulted in the evacuation of 19 surrounding properties.

Premier slams Mornington Peninsula council’s ‘inaction’ over McCrae landslide

Announcing an inquiry into last month’s landslide, Jacinta Allan says too many questions remain unanswered. She has demanded the council take back responsibility of the site.

  • Sophie Aubrey, Adam Carey and Lachlan Abbott

Latest

Emergency services attend a house fire in Dover Street, Truganina, on Thursday morning.

Wrong address, innocent victim: Police hunt ‘two murderers’ over deadly firebombing

Police said the 27-year-old woman and her family were completely innocent and had no criminal history. Police are now hunting for “two murderers”.

  • Melissa Cunningham, Lachlan Abbott and Angus Delaney
landslip in McCrae

Surgery for injured worker as unsafe landslide homes remain off limits

The Age has obtained a recording of a meeting the Mornington Peninsula Shire council held with affected residents, at which authorities said work to identify the source of the landslide was ongoing.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Sarah Danckert and Angus Delaney
An aerial shot of the landslide in McCrae.

‘Bloody lucky’: Owner of house destroyed by landslide tells of family’s near miss

Seven homes have been evacuated in the area near Penny Lane in McCrae amid warnings other properties could be in danger.

  • Adam Carey, Sarah Danckert, Lachlan Abbott and Angus Delaney
Emergency workers remove a branch that fell near the Shrine of Remembrance on Tuesday, injuring two people.

Two injured as large tree branch falls near Shrine of Remembrance

Police said two men and a woman were walking down steps towards St Kilda Road when they were struck just before 1.30pm on Tuesday.

  • Lachlan Abbott and Angus Delaney
Police arrest a man in Weir Views.

Man arrested after shots fired at police during siege in Melbourne’s west

A siege has ended after armed police arrested a man who allegedly shot at officers before barricading himself in a stranger’s home with a man and a toddler.

  • Alex Crowe
Advertisement
Eleanor Bryant.

Today presenter pays emotional tribute to ‘hero’ preschool worker killed in crash

Tearful Alex Cullen called Eleanor Bryant “generous, wonderful and caring” after she died saving preschool children from the path of a water tanker.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Emergency Services are currently in Riddells Creek following a collision.

Woman dead, three-year-old injured after truck crashes into preschool at Riddells Creek

A 43-year-old speech pathologist is dead and a three-year-old boy has been seriously injured after a water tanker ploughed into a preschool’s playground in a small town north of Melbourne.

  • Erin Pearson and Caroline Schelle
A 43-year-old teacher’s aide is believed to have bravely pushed children out of the way before a truck lost control and ploughed through a preschool just north of Melbourne on Monday afternoon.

As it happened: Teacher’s aide, 43, dies while trying to save children in preschool truck crash, police say; Three-year-old boy seriously injured

A child has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after a truck crashed into a kindergarten in Melbourne’s outer north.

  • Alex Crowe and Caroline Schelle
Worksafe officers inspect items at St Kevin’s school at Toorak on Friday

St Kevin’s student suffers fractures in freak school balcony fall

The teenage boy was on the year 7 and 8 deck during recess when the incident occurred at the Toorak boys’ school.

  • Bridie Smith, Alex Crowe and Marta Pascual Juanola

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/melbourne-emergency-1mla