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Emergency response approaches
Heritage Victoria provides support for protecting heritage by:
- Assessing heritage places affected by disaster events. This includes bushfires, floods, storms, wind events and even earthquakes.
- Providing advice to heritage asset owners and managers about proceeding with repairs.
- Delivering projects contributing to heritage recovery and public safety goals.
About the emergency and bushfire recovery program
The Emergency and Bushfire Recovery program was established after the Black Summer fires to provide:
- Guidance to people across Victoria who manage heritage places, property and objective to prepare for disasters so that there is minimal impact on their heritage if a disaster occurs
- Disaster preparation toolkit and risk management guidance
- Recovery specific resources for flood recovery.
Severe weather and events on record
Recently, severe weather and other events have impacted significant historic heritage sites across Victoria.
These include:
- Over 100 places affected by the Black Summer fires in 2019/20
- Approximately 500 heritage places affected by the June 2021 storms and floods
- Multiple heritage sites affected by the September 2021 earthquake
- Many sites impacted by January 2022 storms
- Far East Gippsland impacted by another storm and flood event in April 2022.
- Over 50 state-significant, and many more local heritage places impacted by the 2022 Victorian floods.
Case study - Stringers Knob fire spotting tower
The heritage interpretation project at Stringers knob has now been completed.
The Stringers Knob historic fire towers were impacted by fires and have not been used since the 1960s.
Page last updated: 10/07/24