WAtoday understands Department of Fire and Emergency Services officers are responding to at least four callouts for people stuck in lifts.
About 13,000 homes in Perth’s north remain without power on Monday afternoon due to rain and humid weather damaging around 70 power poles.
Dandenong Ranges residents are losing patience with the most prolonged power outage in memory as businesses lose money and families are left without internet or hot showers.
Tens of thousands of homes and businesses were left without power and four people were hospitalised after being struck by lightning.
Many communities and individuals have opted to take matters into their own hands,investing in solar panels on rooftops,household batteries,and electric vehicles could be used to power the grid.
Almost one-in-seven of Victoria’s 13,000 electricity transmission towers have patchy or extensive rust,with experts warning the network is vulnerable to extreme weather.
Twenty-four homes were destroyed by a bushfire in Pomonal and another was razed further north at Dadswells Bridge.
The Latrobe Valley’s Loy Yang A is Victoria’s largest coal-fired power plant. It’s also old and unreliable – leaving taxpayers exposed.
Gale force winds have yet again toppled transmission lines,raising questions about the ability of the electricity grid to cope with climate change.
Homes have been lost in Victoria’s west as two out-of-control blazes burn in the Grampians after the worst day for fire conditions since the Black Summer. Follow live updates.
A dairy farmer is dead,while Phillip Island and its surrounding communities remain without electricity after wild storms battered Victoria on Tuesday.