Fire
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Fire exercise hones skills
With a high number of well-publicised serious house fires in the Macedon Ranges and surrounding areas this winter alone, it is important local CFA brigades are up to speed when it comes to dealing with these emergencies. To reinforce a range of firefighting skills to protect lives and property, a number of brigades were involved…
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Highbank hopes
Watching your home go up in flames is dreadful. Watching it burn after having spent years meticulously restoring and renovating it is utterly heartbreaking. But it’s not enough to keep Tonia Todman and Michael Dowding from starting over and restoring their historic Kyneton homestead Highbank, which was gutted by fire three weeks ago. The couple…