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1981
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The last 3 houses standing in Yallourn at the end of 1981 were demolished by using them as a training unit for the National Safety Council of Australia. Could the house with the red roof be 23 Latrobe Avenue? Does anyone recognise the house or the palm tree in the background?

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Sorry but I'm not sure of the address but was lucky enough (I suppose Lucky is OK) to be there on the day this was done. I was a mechanic at the central workshops and was tasked with assisting in the set op of the exercise. The tanker was to be pulled inside the house using a Bulldozer from Forestry, a winch cable was passed through the house from the rear and the tanker was just dragged into position with the old house putting up a commendable but futile attempt to resist. We actually had to have a couple of goes!
We stayed to watch the exercise unfold which turned out to be quite amusing as the initial scene involved the local police attending. The police officer raced his car along the street and as to plan slammed on his brakes in an attempt to pull up out front. What with a bit of moisture added to a great rate of Knots he slid right past the hose, camera the works. A second attempt done rather more slowly was to the director’s approval. The burning petrol was actually gas burners placed in the house and around the trailer! By the way the hose caught fire and was in danger of spoiling the day until put out buy the fire crew cast!
Peter

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I took this sequence of photographs from the lower side of NARRACAN AVE looking east towards the Open Cut on my way home from the SEC Transformer Repair Workshop (aka The Snake Pit)
It was a National Safety Council of Australia team training exercise as well as a training exercise for the Bell helicopter manufacturer.
The NSCA was to acquire a smaller Bell 205/206 to add to the fleet of 210/212's.
The photographs were taken on Kodak Kadachrome 400 (slides) using a Minolta XG-M with motordrive and a Tamron 80 - 210 zoom.

The 3 photographs were given to Julie George during the 2012 Yallourn reunion at Woorabinda.
Any other photographs I find in the future will be uploaded.