Vic: Towns listed as extreme risk for next bushfire season

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2009
Vic: Towns listed as extreme risk for next bushfire season

Towns listed by Country Fire Authority as being at extreme risk in the 2009-10 bushfire season:

* Central Victoria:

Bendigo

Castlemaine

Eaglehawk

Junortoun

Kangaroo Flat

Maiden Gully

* Mornington Peninsula:

Blairgowrie

Rye

St Andrews



* Ballarat-Macedon growth corridor

Creswick

Daylesford

Hepburn

Trentham

Steiglitz

Mt Helen

Mt Clear

Macedon

Mt Macedon

Woodend

Greendale

Blackwood

Dereel

* Dandenong Ranges including:

Cockatoo

Gembrook

Upper Beaconsfield

* Far southwest Victoria

Carlisle River

Marengo

Kawarren

Lavers Hill

Nelson

* Southwest Victoria

Aireys Inlet

Moggs Creek

Fairhaven

Anglesea

Jan Juc

Bellbrae

Lorne

Wye River

Kennett River

Separation Creek

Bolwarra

Breamlea

Barwon Downs

Forrest

Deans Marsh

Bambra

Pennyroyal

Big Hill



* East Gippsland

Cann River

Mallacoota

Noojee

Bemm River

* South Gippsland:

Andersons Inlet

Inverloch

Sandy Point

Venus Bay

Waratah Bay

Walkerville

Loch Sport

* Western Victoria:

Dunkeld

Halls Gap

St Arnaud

* Northeast Melbourne:

Warrandyte/North

Warrandyte



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