The united force of all Bendigo firefighters at a shop fire led to some glowing comments from Senior Station Officer Dale Stemmer who doubled as the incident controller.
Fire investigators have begun the complex task of trying to figure out what caused a large blaze that apparently started in the roof of Portland’s IGA Supermarket early Sunday morning, a fire that caused an estimated $4.5 million damage.
The fantastic work by Lilydale and surrounding brigades, shaking tins for the Good Friday Appeal, was dramatically cut short on Good Friday (6th April), when Lilydale and Mooroolbark Brigades were paged to a reported housefire in Chirnside Park.