Contributor ReportsFalse warning posted on bushfire website
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Wed Nov 25 11:43:08 -0800 2009 | travel-news
The false alarm, published on Wednesday on the website, jointly managed by the Country Fire Authority and the Department of Sustainability and Environment, remained visible for 26 minutes, The Age newspaper said. A copy of the warning, obtained by The...
Father, baby son critically injured in car crash
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Mon Nov 23 12:52:13 -0800 2009 | travel-news
The pair was travelling between Riddells Creek and Monegeetta about 9am when the man lost control of his car and slid in loose gravel into a tree. The 52-year-old driver and his son both suffered serious head injuries in the...
Deluge damages homes in Victoria
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Mon Nov 23 13:15:44 -0800 2009 | travel-news
More than 50 millimetres has fallen in Melbourne, while Trentham, north-west of the city, has received more than 100 millimetres. The State Emergency Service has responded to more than 300 calls for help, mostly for flooded gutters and damaged roofs....
85-year old dies in flight
Posted by: prabirghose
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sun Oct 11 19:30:41 -0700 2009 | travel-news
An 85-year old Australian Arthur Hesket, on his first flight overseas, suffered a heart-stoke in the air and died. Air France wants the family to cough up $20K to bring the body back to Australia. The death was, apparently, due...
ReachChopper crashes at primary school
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sun Nov 15 16:56:56 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Ambulance officers are assessing the two people who were on board...Tags: disasters-and-accidents , air-and-space-accidents , australia , vic , cheltenham-3192 , melbourne-3000 Search for news Search
Don’t mix sex with driving
Posted by: prabirghose
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sat Nov 21 16:52:04 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Sex and driving are two things that just do not mix – both give pleasure and both require a bit of expertise. When one tries to do both at the same time, it can be dangerous. That is what the...
Powder, cash found in crash car
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sun Nov 22 17:30:46 -0800 2009 | travel-news
THE NSW Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, has confirmed that police are investigating a ''quantity of powder'' and a ''significant quantity of cash'' that were found in a car that collided with a truck outside Yass, killing all four male occupants....
Backburning to protect water catchments
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Tue Nov 24 00:53:46 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Victorian Premier John Brumby inspected the progress from the air near Healesville, east of Melbourne, on Tuesday...Catastrophic bushfires damaged smaller catchment areas last summer, burning through the O'Shannassy, Tarago and Maroondah catchments. Mr Brumby said a second helicopter would...
Major delays after Punt Road closure
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Tue Nov 17 23:08:39 -0800 2009 | travel-news
The major arterial was closed to traffic this morning after a water main burst near the Commercial Road intersection in Prahran. Traffic is still blocked for both outbound lanes and one in-bound lane. A spokesman for VicRoads said traffic management...
Hero pilot ditches plane off Norfolk Island
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Thu Nov 19 01:55:36 -0800 2009 | travel-news
In the dark and facing a 1.5-metre swell, he brought the Westwind jet down and ditched in the sea...Photo: Cleo The ill woman was on a CareFlight medical evacuation flight from Apia in Samoa to Melbourne, operated by Pel-Air Aviation....
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