Breaking | The Mickleham quarantine facility will be re-opened from as early as next week as crisis accommodation for people displaced by flooding. vicfloods
Murchison resident Scotty Richter was coordinating sandbagging efforts for small businesses on the main street, with the help of several local schoolchildren, whose school day had been cut short by midmorning.
“The Victorian and Commonwealth Governments have agreed to stand up the Mickleham quarantine facility for Victorians who may need crisis accommodation due to flooding,” a government spokesperson said.“Work has begun on preparations to reopen the site for use early next week. Everything else he owns at the five-acre property he lives in on banks of the Goulburn River was marooned on a shrinking island now, inside a house he says is uninsured, where water was almost lapping at his front door.
Outside the police station, about 30 men from the Australian Defence Force, CFA and Forest Fire Management Victoria were shovelling truckloads of fresh sand into bags to fortify the town.The SES had already completed four rescues by boat, delivering people whose houses had been surrounded by water to safety.Police and the SES are evacuating people by boat from flooded parts of Rochester.
Truong, whose family is interstate, said he and his two housemates, a couple from Italy, didn’t have anywhere to stay, and the trio were waiting at the relief centre with Truong’s rescue dog, Quiche.
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