Fire Recovery Unit News room

• 21 Feb 2012 Memorial Skate Park open for Yarram’s youth
  The opening of the new Yarram Memorial Skate Park allows the young people in the South Gippsland town to meet, talk and skate
• 05 Feb 2012 Video: Black Saturday memorial service at Callignee
  View the video of the Premier and Deputy Premier's visit to Callignee
• 01 Feb 2012 Victorian Bushfire Recovery three year report released
  Much has been achieved across the 32 impacted communities in the past 12 months and ongoing assistance will continue to help families and individuals rebuild their lives
• 11 Dec 2011 Flowerdale Cricket Club batting up once again
  Sport and recreation play an important role in the recovery process from disasters
• 05 Dec 2011 New website maps out roads closed due to floods, fires and other emergencies
  People will be able to find out which roads are closed on interactive maps in real time
• 05 Dec 2011 Subsidised loans available for Marysville’s recovery
  The Marysville and Triangle Investment Subsidy will be available through Rural Finance
• 25 Dec 2011 Work begins on Grand Strzelecki Track
  The Grand Strzelecki Track will add a walking trail that will entice even more visitors and help stimulate new economic and social activities for local communities
• 20 Nov 2011 New Lake Mountain Alpine Resort Visitor Centre opens
  Rebuilding works include an enhanced visitor building and public shelter, new gateway entry, improvements to walking tracks and lookouts and new snow-making system
• 19 Nov 2011 New Marysville community centre opens
  The Centre provides a publicly accessible community space to replace a number of meeting places destroyed in the 2009 fires
• 17 Nov 2011 New planning controls to protect Victorians from bushfire
  These new bushfire planning provisions will improve the preparedness of Victorian communities for the impacts of bushfire
• 03 Nov 2011 Extension of Victorian bushfire rebuilding assistance
  Local councils still rebuilding from the 2009 bushfires will now have an extra year to claim reconstruction funding
• 26 Oct 2011 Marysville conference centre a step closer
  The government is inviting interested parties to put forward their credentials and ideas for the project
• 24 Oct 2011 Voluntary Buy-back community consultation process
  Participation in the bushfire buy-back scheme is completely voluntary
• 19 Oct 2011 Deadline extended to access bushfire business loans
  Small businesses and primary producers in the state's bushfire-affected communities will now have until 31 December 2011 to apply for concessional loan packages
• 07 Oct 2011 Tourism recovery funding for Marysville
  Funding is part of a coordinated approach to support the Marysville region's on-going recovery
• 06 Sep 2011 Funding to boost natural disaster resilience across Victoria
  Improving disaster protection and local strategies to deal with disasters
• 01 Sep 2011 More time to apply for Fire Ready Communities grants
  Grants of up to $30,000 will be available under the program for community safety projects and up to $100,000 for community network projects
• 01 Sep 2011 Fire Action Week education campaign announced
  Being fire aware and prepared is a shared responsibility across government, emergency services and communities
• 01 Sep 2011 Premier welcomes new era in bushfire mitigation innovation to Geelong
  Continuing with the creation and implementation of technologies that greatly reduce bushfire risk
• 01 Sep 2011 Rebuilt Strathewen Primary School opens
  The School opening represents an important milestone in helping the local community recover from the devastating impact of the 2009 bushfires
• 18 Jul 2011 Building a safer future for bushfire-prone communities
  Supporting innovative, locally-identified and locally-managed projects across high-fire-risk communities
• 01 Jul 2011 Government invests in Marysville's economic recovery
  Encouraging new investment in Marysville and Triangle as the community continues to recover from the 2009 bushfires
• 24 Jun 2011 New f-factor scheme to help prevent bushfires
  The scheme further encourages electricity distribution businesses to reduce fires started by their assets
• 22 Jun 2011 New Loan Scheme to support bushfire-affected small businesses
  The scheme will allow bushfire-affected businesses to apply for concessional government loans
• 22 Jun 2011 Tank rebates extended for bushfire-affected households
  The grants help Victorians use water wisely and contribute to overall water efficiency
• 20 Jun 2011 Ongoing support for Victorian bushfires recovery
  Grants program to strengthen leadership and resilience in bushfire-affected communities
• 20 Jun 2011 Government thanks bushfire communities
  Community contribution towards the massive bushfire reconstruction and recovery effort acknowledged
• 31 May 2011 Bushfires Implementation Plan tabled
  The Bushfires Implementation Plan outlines the extensive measures being taken to improve Victoria's response to future bushfires
• 03 May 2011 Bushfire-affected households get continuing support
  Helping people in bushfire-affected communities rebuild and assisting landowners across Victoria
• 03 May 2011 Ongoing support for Murrindindi bushfire recovery
  Communities across Murrindindi Shire hardest hit by the devastating 2009 bushfires will receive a funding boost to assist with their ongoing recovery