Traralgon News

Black Saturday has won an apology from the CFA after it accused him of having a history of bullying. Carrajung brigade captain John Willis claimed he was pushed out by senior officers because he said "f---" in frustration when his...

Black Saturday and throughout the clean-up, with thousands of volunteers deployed across the state," he said. February 7 bushfires, and also received his 25-year service medal at the ceremony. This year, 65 SES volunteers received the national medal for 15...

Gissara had a simple fire plan. ''Send the wife and kids away, and I was going to hopefully put the fire out.'' Instead, he survived Black Saturday with four other men breathing hot smoke, waist deep in a concrete water...

00 Updated November 9, 2009 15:13:00 The Churchill blaze was one of the lesser disasters that unfolded across Victoria on Black Saturday - although hardly for the families of the 11 people killed or those made homeless when 240 houses...

Black Saturday, Gregory Weir and his 14-year-old son Dylan shaded their faces with lily pads and struggled to breathe as the Churchill inferno swept through their Jeeralang property. On the last day of the Bushfire Royal Commission's regional hearing, Mr...

The Country Fire Authority's (CFA) Craig Wood told the hearing in Traralgon, that firefighters left their trucks on Black Saturday to reach a house 100 metres up a road blocked by fallen trees. Mr Wood said it was an uncomfortable...