Mornington Peninsula house falls down cliff amid landslide
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One person taken to Frankston hospital after house collapses at Penny Lane in McCrae on Melbourne’s eastern fringe. A house on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula has collapsed down a cliff amid a landslide on Tuesday morning, with one person taken to hospital.
The house on Penny Lane in McCrae collapsed during the landslide shortly before 9am on Tuesday. Ambulance Victoria said paramedics responded to the incident about 8.45am and one person, believed to be in a stable condition, was transported to Frankston hospital.
Multiple nearby homes remained a concern, and six properties had been evacuated, State Emergency Service operations manager Chris Gregory said. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email. “A couple of them were vacant holiday homes and others had residents who were working with councils and other agencies to make sure they have a safe place to go,” Gregory told ABC Radio Melbourne.
The destroyed house was empty after it had been hit by a smaller landslide about a week before and was being monitored by geotechnical engineering experts. Authorities disconnected utility services in nearby properties as they assessed the area for potential danger, and the Nepean Highway was closed between McCrae and Dromana.
“We do have a road closure in place, and we’ll seek to lift that as soon as we possibly can,” Gregory said. Tanina Osborne, who swims in the area each morning, posted a video to Facebook from the scene. Osborne said she had heard an “almighty tumble, like a truckload of rock had just been dumped on the ground” – but it was the house collapsing down a cliff.
