AAP General News (Australia)
02-07-2009
Vic: Power cuts as fire threatens power station
By Jeff Turnbull
MELBOURNE, Feb 7 AAP - Power to Melbourne was under threat on Saturday night as bushfires
raged out of control near the Loy Yang power station in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria's
east.
Around 100,000 customers of Victoria's electricity suppliers lost power during the
hottest day in Victoria since records started in 1855.
Bushfires, 100km/h per hour winds and falling branches were blamed by suppliers for the outages.
Around 20,000 Horsham residents, who faced ferocious fires on Saturday, lost power
and will be …
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