‘Almighty sound’: Homes evacuated after Mornington Peninsula house slides down cliff

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An SES spokesman said seven homes nearby had been evacuated as emergency services established an exclusion zone around the landslip.

Tanina Osborne witnessed the landslide and posted a video of the collapsed house on Facebook shortly after 9am.

“So there’s been a massive landslide in McCrae,” she said.

“We heard this almighty sound and thought that a truck had lost a whole lot of gravel, but instead it was this house.”

She added: “I know the people who used to own his house – fortunately they sold it … I think it’s fallen onto another house.”

Speaking at a press conference, acting premier Ben Carroll said he had only just heard about the incident, but his thoughts were with the family in the home.

“It must be devastating for them, and obviously, their neighbours as well,” he said.

“This will be something that obviously the planning minister, the minister for building … all the authorities will look at what’s happened here [and] consult with the local council. But it hasn’t been an issue that’s been raised previously.”

Kim, a caller on radio station 3AW, said the house fell into the back of other homes on Penny Lane.

“There are still two houses at the top of the hill that haven’t been impacted,” she said.

“The units that are on the street level … they’re still standing OK. And the house just came down behind [them] and collapsed.”

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