Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Alan Shepherd speaks to attendees at Maldon CFA’s community information session. More than 100 locals attended the Maldon Fire Station on the morning of Sunday 18 January to hear from highly experienced firefighters Bruce Clements, Alan Shepherd and Julien Harrison. They provided a debrief about the recent bushfires that devastated Harcourt and Mount Alexander and…
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Official welcome to new Baringhup West tanker
Baringhup West Fire Brigade celebrated the official handover of its new tanker on Friday 6 December.
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Anne-Maree McComb lost her roof and verandah during the wild storm in Maldon on Saturday 13 December. Photo used with permission. An intense and devastating storm hit Central Victoria on Saturday 13 December and cast a weird yellow light, thrashing tree branches to the ground while overwhelming gutters and drains. Folks across Facebook compared their…
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on Monday 9 January 1899 one of Maldon’s most destructive bushfires occurred. It started about 11am as a grass fire in a paddock owned by Neil Neilson near the corner of the Bridgewater and Baringhup Roads. The fire initially threatened the nearby Junction and Springs Hotels and then, fanned by a hot northwesterly wind, spread…
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