Girl rescued from hot car
A Maribyrnong girl is recovering after being locked in a hot car as temperatures soared earlier this month. Advanced life support paramedics and the MFB were called to a car parked outside a house on February 11 when the girl’s mother was unable to get her daughter out. The MFB crew smashed a window to free the girl and she was taken to the Royal Children’s Hospital in a stable condition.
Regional Rail Link delay
The Regional Rail Link has been hit by a two-month delay and will not open until late June. Trains were scheduled to begin operating along the 45-kilometre link between Southern Cross Station and West Werribee in April, but will not do so until June 21 after the government said a shortage of V/Line trains had forced it to defer the grand opening of the $4.3 billion project.
Maribyrnong fishing charges
A 59-year-old Bentleigh man will be charged with use and possession of prohibited mesh nets and taking undersize bream from the Maribyrnong River. Fisheries Victoria officer Dane Robinson said the man was last week observed adjacent to Chifley Drive in Maribyrnong in an inflatable raft before being apprehended by fisheries officers. His vehicle was searched and three trammel nets were uncovered, ranging from 19 to 30 metres each. Seven bream were found entangled in the nets, including an undersize bream. All the fish with signs of life were returned to the water.
