Emergency Services

Vehicle collides with bookshop in Murray Street

POLICE are investigating after a vehicle collided with Ramalama Book Exchange on Murray Street this evening around 4.15pm. It’s unknown what caused the accident at this stage, but it’s not believed to be related to drugs or alcohol. According to...

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Sentinel-Times

05 Jun 2025

Emergency Services

Bass Highway closed after vehicle flips

A WOMAN in her 30s has been taken to hospital after her car flipped on the Bass Highway this afternoon between Wonthaggi and Inverloch. It’s understood a car slowed to turn into a property along the highway with the two vehicles behind subsequently...

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Sentinel-Times

01 Jun 2025

Emergency Services

Search continues for male swept off rocks at Punch Bowl

POLICE and emergency services are continue to search for a male who was swept off the rocks with two others at a beach off Punch Bowl Road on Good Friday, April 18 around 8.30am. The search for the male has been ongoing since Friday with emergency...

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Sentinel-Times

21 Apr 2025

Emergency Services

Male questioned over Anderson fire

POLICE have interviewed a 56 year old male from Anderson in relation to a fire lit during the fire danger period that required emergency services and burnt approximately one hectare this afternoon around 3.30/4pm. It’s understood the male was...

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Sentinel-Times

22 Mar 2025

Emergency Services

Grand Ridge Road closed as emergency services work to clear truck accident

GRAND Ridge Road is closed to traffic as emergency services work to clear the scene of a truck accident near the corner of Grand Ridge Road and Warragul-Leongatha Road near Seaview/Ellinbank. It’s believed the flatbed truck left the road and went...

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Sentinel-Times

20 Mar 2025

Emergency Services

Power outage after electricity pole fire in Cape Paterson

POWER is currently out to 1303 homes in Cape Paterson after a power line fire this morning on the corner of Cassia Street and Surf Beach Road, Cape Paterson at 7.50am. Firefighters from Wonthaggi Fire Brigade extinguished the fire with the power...

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Sentinel-Times

16 Mar 2025

Emergency Services

Observant passerby limits fire damage at San Remo shop

A MINOR electrical fire in a shop on Marine Parade at San Remo last night, Tuesday, March 4, might have been worse but for the intervention of a passerby. Police have reported that a member of the public, walking past the building shortly after 9pm...

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Sentinel-Times

05 Mar 2025

Emergency Services

Wentworth Road fire likely an ‘illegal burn-off’, they say

WONTHAGGI fire fighters had a busy day on Thursday, February 13. There was another bin fire in Biggs Drive in the morning. Twelve fire trucks and a helicopter water bomber responded to a relatively small but concerning bushfire in the Wonthaggi...

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Michael Giles

13 Feb 2025

Emergency Services

Know the rules using machinery during today’s total fire ban

TODAY February 13 is a day of Total Fire Ban in the Central district including Bass Coast Shire and French Island when special restrictions and conditions apply to the use of farm machinery and other equipment. Here are some details on what you can...

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Sentinel-Times

13 Feb 2025

Emergency Services

Bushfire reported in Wonthaggi wetlands close to town

TEN fire trucks have responded to a ‘small’ bushfire in the Wonthaggi Wetland Reserve at 3pm today, Thursday, February 13, a Total Fire Ban day in the Central region of the state, including Bass Coast. The fire is located behind the Wonthaggi...

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Sentinel-Times

13 Feb 2025

Emergency Services

Train crashes into trailer and excavator near Sale

POLICE are at the scene of a collision in Kilmany, 35km east of Traralgon on Tuesday, morning February 11. Officers were told a trailer carrying an excavator, being towed by a truck on Princes Highway, was struck by an oncoming passenger V-line...

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Sentinel-Times

11 Feb 2025

Emergency Services

Phillip Island SES answered 45 calls after ‘mini cyclone’

AN INTENSE storm cell, which touched down in a discrete area of Phillip Island last Sunday, February 2, shortly after 5pm, has been described as a “mini cyclone” by affected residents mostly in the Ventnor area on the east side of the island...

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Michael Giles

05 Feb 2025

Emergency Services

Hailstones and storm warning for Bass Coast and South Gippsland

VIC Emergency has issued a Thunderstorm Warning for West and South Gippsland, including the Bass Coast Shire area with conditions likely to produce large hailstones and damaging winds. Already some storm cells have been sweeping across the area and...

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Michael Giles

02 Feb 2025