Emergency Management Agency and Recovery Agency Information
7 December, 2025
Please feel free to share any of this information with your friends and family.
BOM: The Bureau of Meteorology has issued the long-range forecast for the 2025 summer season, and it shows summer days and nights are likely to be warmer than average across most of Australia.
Nationally, summer rainfall is likely to be below average for parts of the west and inland parts of the east.
The community can stay up to date with the latest long-range forecast on BOM’s website and select their location for detailed information about their area.
ACRC: Bushfires have started this summer already.
Victoria’s combined source of emergency information and warnings, helping the community to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies across the state.
Click here for Incidents and Warnings – VicEmergency
Telstra Network Disruption Advice – Planned Outage
Telstra will be upgrading its Apex Hill base station that services Bright and surrounds to bring a better user experience.
Mobile services in the area will be temporarily affected while the upgrade works are underway.
Keep up to date on this outage via https://www.telstra.com.au/outages
Temporary disruptions
Telstra mobile customers will receive texts advising of the upcoming work.
Landline services, NBN and Satellite internet services, and mobile coverage from other providers will not be impacted.
Any calls to Triple Zero from a Telstra mobile when the site is off air will automatically connect to another mobile network if available for connection to emergency services.
The site will need to be switched off during the following periods:
Tuesday 9th Dec – site completely offline during day
Wednesday 10th Dec – partial site outage
Thursday 11th Dec – partial site outage
Friday 12th Dec – site completely offline during day
Monday 15th Dec – intermittent disruptions.
Site will be brought back online each evening and no works are taking place over the weekend.
Tips for improving connectivity while works are underway.
Telstra customers can continue to make calls and send texts during disruption to mobile services by switching on Wi-Fi Calling. This is a free setting on most popular mobile phones and allows your mobile to make and receive mobile calls while connected to Wi-Fi.
