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Australia Day Honours for Victorian emergency services
The outstanding contribution of the state’s emergency services personnel has been recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours List.
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Learning from the Victorian floods in real time
Real Time Monitoring and Evaluation (RTM&E) teams recently travelled to the state’s flood zones – the Loddon Mallee Region during October and the Hume Region in November, as well as completing virtual deployments in November and December.
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Risk and Resilience Grants Program to boost Victoria’s natural disaster response
Emergency management and community organisations have received $3.2 million in funding to strengthen their response to natural disasters.
AFAC map of fire potential for Summer 2021, showing below normal fire potential in eastern Victoria.
Victorians urged to prepare for risk of grassfires this summer
Fast-running grassfires will be a risk across Victoria this summer, according to the Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook released yesterday.
Victoria well prepared this summer season
The latest Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook for December 2020 to February 2021 indicates an ‘average’ fire season for the state, which is in line with earlier predictions from the September-November 2020 outlook.
Above normal conditions in Central Victoria and Gippsland
Parts of the Wimmera and Mallee and East and West Gippsland are forecast to experience above-normal bushfire potential over the summer, according to the update of the Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook, released today. 
A message from the Emergency Management Commissioner about Human Rights Week 2019
Human rights start with you – Human Rights Week 2019 
Victoria’s super suite of aircraft set for the summer season
Victoria’s summer aviation fleet was launched today, marked with a fly-over by one of the newest members of the fleet, Marty.
Appointment of Victoria's first Fire Rescue Commissioner
Chief Fire Officer of the Edmonton Fire Rescue Services in Canada, Ken Block, has been appointed as Victoria’s first Fire Rescue Commissioner.
EMV responsible for disaster recovery funding arrangements
As of 1 December 2019, the responsibility for the administration of Victoria’s Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements has moved to Emergency Management Victoria (EMV).