Emergency Information

Latrobe City has been subjected to emergencies that have resulted in the evacuation of residents and damage to property. The priority in an emergency is to provide timely support to the effected community and to ensure the social and economic impact is minimised.

• Bushfire Information
• Flood Information
• Bushfire Prevention

Municipal Emergency Management Plan

To ensure the Latrobe City community will have appropriate management strategies in all emergencies the City has prepared a Municipal Emergency Management Plan in accordance with the requirements of Section 20(1) of the Emergency Management Act 1986. The current plan was endorsed by Council on 17th November 2011

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Municipal Emergency Managment Plan (pdf, 1.02mb)

Municipal Neighbourhood Safer Places Plan – Places of Last Resort

In response to the 2009 Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission recommendation that neighbourhood safer places, or NSPs, be identified and established to provide persons in bushfire affected areas with a place of last resort during a bushfire, Latrobe City Council have adopted the Municipal Neighbourhood Safer Places Plan.  This plan sets out how NSPs will be identified, assessed, designated, established and maintained, in line with updated legislation.  The current plan was adopted by Council on 8 February 2010.

NSPs are not community fire refuges or emergency relief centres.  NSPs are places of last resort during the passage of a bushfire, and are intended to be used by persons whose primary bushfire plans have failed.  NSPs are places of relative safety only.  They do not guarantee the survival of those who assemble there.  Furthermore, there may be serious risks to safety encountered in travelling, and seeking access, to NSPs during bushfire events.  Depending on the direction of a particular fire, it may not be a safer place to assemble than other places within the municipal district.

For further information, contact the Municipal Fire Prevention Officer, on 1300 367 700.

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Municipal Neighbourhood Safer Places Plan – Places of Last Resort

The Neighbourhood Safer Place – Place of last Resort that have been designated in Latrobe City Council are located at: Churchill Community Hall Philip Place, Churchill 3842. Boolarra Memorial Hall, Cnr Tarwin & Christian Sts, Boolarra 3870. Yinnar Primary School, Main Street, Yinnar 3869 (formerly Yinnar Hotel).

Municipal Fire Prevention Plan

Large sections of Latrobe City are classed as bushfire prone areas. Latrobe City has a Municipal Fire Prevention Plan, as required by the CFA Act 1958; this plan outlines how council will react in the event of a bushfire within the shire.

When a bushfire occurs within Latrobe City, or threatens Latrobe City, the MECC (Municipal Emergency Control Centre) is set up and staffed by council staff. You should ascertain whether or not you live in a bushfire prone area, and then make sure your have a fire plan in place, so that you know what to do if a fire threatens. 

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2011 Municipal Fire Prevention Plan (pdf, 1.15mb)