Vic: Hundreds of calls for help to SES as winds down trees

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2009
Vic: Hundreds of calls for help to SES as winds down trees

Emergency crews are responding to hundreds of calls for help in Geelong and Melbourne
this morning .. after winds reaching 110 kilometres an hour swept through southwest Victoria.

SES spokeswoman SIMONE MYERS says the calls are mostly about fallen trees.

She says one person was trapped when a tree came down on a house in Belgrave and the
roof was blown off a house in Rye.

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KEYWORD: WIND (MELBOURNE)

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