 Welcome. Fire Service Commissioner for Victoria. With me today is the Chief Office of Dr Rosemary Lister. And from Ambulance Victoria is Paul, one of our local paramedics, and Aguirre from DHS who's running the recovery and relocation part of the emergency. Just quickly, the fire has been suppressed overnight and great success. So that's a great story for our firefighters over the last 24 hours. Still a lot of work in front of them and there's still smoke being issued obviously from the open cut. But the amount of work that's been done and the success of cooling, putting out fire is of note. And we've obviously run thermal cameras over the fire this morning. It's been very clear that we reduced the amount of fire, particularly in the northern battens, the batters that are the closest to more. That's a good story and obviously morale of our firefighters and safety has been critical. I might hand over straight to Aguirre, he'll take us through the relocation story for today. Thanks Craig, Aguirre Alice Andradez, Director in Aguirre's land. I just want to start by saying that our 1-800 number continues to operate and we're receiving lots of information, lots of enquiries from the community directly. So that's our first port of call into our response. Our community respite centre obviously is there for respite, for people within the more community, the broad more community. And we're receiving people and assisting them through that centre. I just want to take a moment just to talk a little bit about a story of a 90-year-old lady who presented at the respite centre. Our staff received her, she had a range of mobility issues. We processed and assisted her through the 1-800 helpline. We transported her back to our receiving centres and we're able to package up a range of supports and accommodate that lady within a couple of hours. That's a sort of story that we're seeing quite a bit. Many people arriving at respite centres and obviously through the 1-800 helpline and of course we're assisting a whole range of people, both for respite purposes and relocation purposes. We have a significant amount of staff on the ground and both our own staff, so over 70 staff from the department. We have volunteers from the Red Cross and from the Victorian Council of Churches. We have La Trobe City Council who have been a fantastic partner in being able to partner up the range of supports that we have in place. And across our three centres, our respite and relocation assistance centres, people have been fantastic and the community has been absolutely brilliant, I think, in terms of the impact that they're facing but the capacity to engage with our staff and for our staff to be able to work with them on a one-to-one basis and to be able to assist them both for respite purposes but also for relocation purposes. Just to give you some numbers. Number of calls to date. So this is since up until yesterday afternoon. We've had received 2,667 calls up until that point in time. Of those, 2,347 were for the purposes of respite and 320 were for the purposes of relocation. Again, as of 6pm last night, we made a total of 448 respite payments directly to people and those payments are specifically to be able to take some time out of the smoke environments and have an opportunity to do something different. We made a total of 106 relocation payments. Again, they are individual packages of support that we have sat down and talked with each of those community members who are wishing to relocate. And can I say that the majority of those community members are choosing to make their own decisions about relocation. That's the majority of the community. We have another 280 appointments scheduled for today and we are prioritising appointments for those people that want to relocate. That's our priority for today and we're trying to get as many through as possible and of course we're monitoring that in terms of the capacity and what else we might need to put in place. Again, a tremendous effort by a whole range of people to get out there and support the community. I think it's been absolutely fantastic. The community, I think, have been great in terms of their patience and the perseverance given the range of impacts that they've been experiencing. Thank you. I'll introduce Paramedic Paul Jones. Where you have paramedics currently working in the Community Health Assessment Centre, which we're now affectionately calling the SHAC. Down at the SHAC, they've assessed over 900 residents and visitors to Morewell today. Yesterday, they did health assessments on 167 residents and visitors. Of those, 141 were tested for their carbon monoxide levels. In the end, we referred one of those people to their own local doctor for some health issues that were assessed and a further one person was transported to La Trobe Community Hospital. So that's over 900 people have gone through those free health assessments today. This morning, there's been over 50 people already. Out at the Hazelwood Open Cut Mine, there's health assessments going on for the firemen, for the workers, for the other emergency service personnel. Yesterday, they checked 1,550 people in the 24-hour period. Of those 1,550 people, our paramedics had to do further assessments on three. Out of those three, we transported just one to La Trobe Hospital for some further assessments. So they're pretty good numbers as well. Finally, yesterday our paramedics helped in the relocation of the 48 residents from a nursing home in Morewell and that all went really well. They've been transported to three different nursing homes here in Gippsland within about a five-hour period. That's about all I've got for you. Thank you. Dr Rosemary Lister, thanks Rosemary. Thanks Craig. So Rosemary Lester, Chief Health Officer. So with the welcome progress on the fire, we are seeing air quality be a little bit better today than it has been. But unfortunately in Morewell South, the air quality is still classified as very poor. So we would reiterate that our advice for those who are most at risk is to temporarily relocate. And that's fantastic that so many of them have taken up the offer of help from the Department of Human Services to do that. And the Department of Human Services has been fantastic in assisting so many people to date. Our advice for the residents of other parts of Morewell or people who aren't particularly at risk remains the same. So if you can, take temporary breaks from the smoke. And we do have the community respite centre in Moe for that purpose. We do know and understand and sympathise with the community that I know many of them are experiencing the effects of the smoke in terms of the irritant effects of eyes, nose, throat and feeling of breathing. However, we must stress that fortunately, and this is very fortunately, we're not seeing severe effects. We're not seeing severe health effects. So we're not seeing any increase in ambulance call-outs or presentations at the La Trobe Regional Hospital for effects from the smoke. And as you've heard from Paul James, the majority of people coming through the community assessment centre have required just basic health checks and reassurance. So I continue to encourage those people in the risk groups that we've recommended to relocate to contact the Department of Human Services for assistance. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Obviously there's a lot of good work happening. We must acknowledge our volunteers, whether they're with the Council of Churches, Red Cross, CFA, SES. Volunteers are critical and they're doing such a great job. And they're in the spirit of making sure that more communities are well supported in what is an ongoing issue. Questions? Can you just reiterate the progress on the fire over the night and a bit more detail? What's happened is obviously the use of foam, water and in some places excavation equipment is allowed for the suppression to occur. All the batters has reduced in the amount of fire that's in there, or heat, that was detected obviously with our normal thermal cameras that we put over the fire and you can see a significant reduction. If we take you back to the 11th of February, the areas that were burning were significant in size and it's been week by week, day by day, shift by shift progress. As we did indicate we had slowed in that progress last week with weather conditions changing. We've done really well the last few days and the firefighters on a 24-hour rotation have done extremely well to now bring back the area burnt to really small areas but still challenging obviously over the next few days. So do you think this is a turning point then? It is a turning point. The weekend was consolidated to be that fact because the weather is in a better position. We've just got to make sure we hold it if the weather conditions aren't as good on Tuesday in particular. So what are you preparing for on Tuesday? The weather is a little bit stronger. That's a dry area so the relative humidity is down. The temperatures up and the wind speeds are slightly increased. So we'll confirm that with the weather Bureau today. That's obviously in the fire plan so any weather like that has the potential to may not be as effective in fire suppression and we could even see the area increase in size to some degree. So that's the worst case scenario. At the moment though let's focus on the good parts and the work that's been done for 48 hours has been absolutely fantastic. Given good conditions are you willing at this stage to put any sort of timeline on the fire suppression? We'll review that after Tuesday. I think the key thing we need to do now is make sure we focus on what is Tuesday being the day that's got the more worse weather condition. But we're also reviewing with an expert panel our suppression strategy tomorrow. So we bring the experts back in tomorrow to do a peer review and make sure the methods we're using are effective and if there's any experts can advise us. That expert panel includes the Chief Executive Officer from Queensland Minds Rescue the Commissioner from Fire Rescue New South Wales an independent engineer which we've brought into the team and also we're using an expert from Texas in USA to peer review the use of foams on what is brown coal. So that's important as well to make sure that we take time to reflect the suppression activities to ensure that if there's any modification or any improvement that we can do that as well. Is that review a standard practice or does it indicate that there's some doubt cast on the efficacy of the firefighting and so forth? No, it's not a doubt. What we've done traditionally fire services won't put the fire out and then they look backwards to see how well they did it. We started right on the day one of this to say we need to bring people in that no brown coal in the firefight. So we have proactively brought that team together and they've monitored along the way. It's not a doubt about what we're doing. We just want to make sure it's the most efficient and effective way to manage this fire. You mentioned the Princess Highway briefly yesterday. Are you concerned about that structure? No, there's been no ground cracking around the Princess Highway and no movement from any of the detectors and that's been confirmed a year again overnight. This will help publicise the meeting today more well. What would you say to residents or what do you think about this meeting that's been organised? Well it's been organised by a group of concerned residents and others and we have spoken to them. I will attend the meeting and give an overarching view of where we are on the fire operations and prepared to take questions but we won't participate in what is protest for other reasons. People will be there purely to give an overview of the fire operations and where we are and obviously there will be a mixed gathering of people for different reasons at what is seen to be a community meeting and also a protest.