District 22 News

Fire fighters from Mooroopna and Shepparton attended two Mooroopna house fires this evening.

Rushworth  P-12 Year 9 CFA Advance Fire Crew has been named as a finalist in the 2012 Fire Awareness Awards - Education. Volunteers from CFA Waranga Group brigades facilitate the CFA component of the program with a maximum of 16 students selected by the College via application.

Tungamah CFA Captain Simon Crawford realised a long cherished dream by winning silver in the World Firefighter's Games last week.

Shepparton Fire Brigade hosted a meeting last week with leaders of the Iraqi community – and hopes that this gathering will be the first of many with ethnic groups from around the area. Story by Peter Dedman.

Like so many CFA members, Pip Johnson has her own personal bushfire history. Her great grandmother put her children in the vegetable patch under wet hessian sacks and watched her life burn down in 1939. Her father was CFA’s first legislative officer around Ash Wednesday and Pip patrolled burn offs on a bush block from age six.

Fire Crews from Mooroopna and Shepparton, responded to an early morning house fire at 07:11am this morning.

A B-Double fuel tanker has caught fire after hitting a kangaroo around 3 km south of Nagambie on the Goulburn Valley Highway.

Stock agents and insurers across Hume Region are working with CFA to put public safety information in the hands of farmers through their mail.

South bound lanes of the Hume Freeway near Violet Town could reopen this evening as CFA crews make good progress clearing the wreckage of a fatal crash involving a b-double petrol tanker.

CFA and emergency services are currently on-scene at a truck and car collision on the Hume Freeway at Violet Town.