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Victoria bushfires update: Premier confirms homes ‘have been lost’
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2/23/2024
With homes already lost to the raging bushfires, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has delivered a stark message to residents in the latest update on February 23rd 2024.
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In terms of the current warnings, there remains an emergency warning with a 'Leave Immediately' message
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issued to many communities in the area that now includes those communities north of yesterday's
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fire ground. This includes communities such as Amphitheatre, Elmhurst and Mount Cole and
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surrounding districts. There is also a 'Watch and Act' leave now for people on the boundary of
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Lexington and Correction, a leave now also for Amphitheatre. I urge people in the area, in the
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area that have been given this warning to act and leave now, to please heed the advice. Heed the
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advice and leave immediately because leaving immediately is the safest option. And leaving
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immediately also means that you can head to one of the three relief centres, particularly if you're
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in the north of the area, there's the opportunity to head towards Maryborough, the relief centre
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that has been established overnight at Princess Park in Maryborough, but also to the other two
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relief centres that were established late yesterday in Winderree and in Ararat. I also want to
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acknowledge that our local colleague, our colleague and local member for Ripon, Martha Haylett, has
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been working with the community based at the Winderree Relief Centre and the official advice
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there is we've had around 200 people register to get access to support at that relief centre in
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Winderree. The Western Highway remains closed between Ballarat and Ararat, however there are
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crews out there on the ground at the moment and they're looking to have that reopened in the
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coming hours and encourage people to continue to monitor the Vic traffic website for further
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updates on both the reopening of the Western Highway but also to a number of road closures
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in the local area and the train line between Ballarat and Ararat also remains suspended with
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crews out there working to have that line reopened and that is hoped to happen in the next 24 hours.
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There's also two around 5,000 properties that are without power across the state, many of those as
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a consequence of yesterday's strong heat and wind weather that went through the state. And on
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weather, today as we know is a much cooler day, however there continues to remain winds remaining
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throughout the day which is of particular concern for firefighters on that fire front in Western
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Victoria. Also too though we are seeing that weather hopefully will remain settled over the
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coming days but there does remain a high fire danger rating across the west and the north of
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the state. I'd also like to acknowledge that for some communities there's a number of schools that
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are either closed or have had changed arrangements for today. Schools that are closed include
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Amphitheatre Primary School and Buangor Primary School and other schools both at primary school,
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both at secondary school, secondary college, Torella Primary School have been relocated to
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Mount Rowan Secondary College and Pomona Primary School remains relocated to Storwest Primary
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School and I want to thank everyone in the education system for supporting students
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at this time as well. And as I said there was a more than a thousand people on the
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ground overnight and that significant firefighting effort continues throughout the day.
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Thank you.
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