General News
22 December, 2023
Fire caution plea from police
LODDON police want people to consider the consequences in a campaign to prevent potential bushfires over summer. Police and Crimestoppers launched the campaign last week on the back of Operation Safeguard—the annual police operation to deter or...
COUNTRY Fire Authority investigators are continuing to probe a fure at Kurraca on Tuesday.
Volunteers spent Wednesdaydoing thermal heat checks after fire burned through more than five hectares on the Wedderburn-Dunolly Road, Kurraca, on Tuesday afternoon.
Wedderburn, Fentons Creek, Bridgewater, Inglewood and Rheola brigades contained the fire with help of two helicopters, a bulldozer and four units from Forest Fire Management Victoria.
Meanwhile, Loddon police want people to consider the consequences in a campaign to prevent potential bushfires over summer.
Police and Crimestoppers launched the campaign last week on the back of Operation Safeguard—the annual police operation to deter or reduce the impact of fires across Victoria.
Local sergeants Ben Huismann and Sean Dixon backed the message from Crime Stoppers Victoria chief executive Stella Smith who said for Victorians “to stop and think before their actions cause a fire this summer.”
Detective Inspector, Chris Murray, of the arson and explosives squad, said: “Preventing bushfires is everyone’s responsibility.”
“Accidental and recklessly lit fires are just as devastating as those fires deliberately lit. The consequences and outcomes to the community are the same,” he said.
“If you’re responsible for a fire that gets out of control, you will be investigated, with penalties ranging up to 15 years jail. The maximum penalty for arson causing death in Victoria is 25 years imprisonment,” said Inspector Murray.