A woman has been killed and more than 83,000 people are without power in Victoria after wild weather ravaged the state over the weekend and Monday.
A 63-year-old woman was killed after a tree fell on a cabin at a holiday park on the border between Victoria and New South Wales, emergency services reported.
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“It’s a sad and tragic set of circumstances for the woman’s family and my thoughts and sympathy go out to her and the emergency services who responded to that incident,” Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan said.
Victoria’s State Emergency Services received over 2,800 call outs overnight, mostly for
More than 300 AusNet crews have been working round the clock to restore electricity to customers who were left without power as a result of extremely damaging winds.
Significant damage has impacted the electricity network, with towns without power including Moe, Warragul, Hampton Park, Lilydale, Drouin, Traralgon, Mt Evelyn, Narre Warren, and Wangaratta.
“Crews continue to assess damage to our network infrastructure, which includes downed powerlines, damage to switches and poles as a result of fallen trees and branches,” an AusNet spokesperson said.
“Two helicopters are assisting ground crews with inspections in Gippsland. We anticipate that some customers will remain without power into Monday night, and potentially for a number of days.
“We apologise for the inconvenience and assure the community we are doing everything we can to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.
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“We urge people to keep away from any fallen or damaged powerlines and assume any wires are live.”
Estimated restoration times are available via AusNet’s Outage Tracker.
