One injured, home destroyed on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula

A home has been destroyed and surrounding houses evacuated following a landslide on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

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00:00A man has been taken to hospital in a stable condition following a landslide that occurred

00:07on Point Nepean Road here in Macray on Victoria's busy Mornington Peninsula just before nine

00:12o'clock this morning.

00:13The landslide caused the property to fall that sustained significant damage.

00:17It fell into the backyard of another property.

00:20Now emergency services are scrambling to stabilize properties in the area.

00:24About a dozen properties nearby have been evacuated.

00:27We just heard from Incident Controller Mark Dorr a short time ago, here's what he had

00:31to say.

00:32We've started to evacuate all the houses around them at the moment, just in an exclusion zone.

00:38We've got some geotechs coming down to establish what's going on and what potential for further

00:44collapse there is.

00:46At the moment we're unsure.

00:48This is a popular tourist hotspot in Victoria, lots of tourists and holidaymakers on the

00:52beach that liken the sound of that house collapsing to an almighty thud, like a truck offloading

00:57a whole bunch of gravel.

00:58Here's what one told me a short time ago.

01:01My place is only 600 metres up the road, I am on the side of the hill, but it's been

01:05flattened out.

01:06It's nothing like this.

01:07I've got lovely views and I hate to think my house will fall over.

01:12WorkSafe has just arrived on site as they work to determine what caused this collapse

01:16on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and they're bracing for a long afternoon and night ahead.