Emergency services warn it could be weeks before evacuated residents near the site of a landslide in Melbourne's south can return home.
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00:00A three-story house slid down a slope yesterday morning in Macrae just before 9am.
00:08A landslide triggered the house to tumble, impacting two other properties on its way
00:13down.
00:14There was one person in the house at the time, a council worker for the Mornington Peninsula
00:19Shire.
00:20He was conducting an assessment and he was injured, taken to hospital, but is now in
00:25a stable condition.
00:27Authorities are now concerned about those other properties on that hill.
00:31They have been left exposed and those below have also may be impacted.
00:37But yesterday, about six properties were evacuated.
00:40Two of those were vacant holiday homes while the rest were permanent residents.
00:46Today though, the SES, Victoria Police, CFA and Fire Rescue Victoria are all on the scene
00:52and there will be geotechnical surveys conducted as well.
00:56There is concern about rain that is coming into the region today as well and what impact
01:01that will have on terrain.
01:03The road that I'm standing along, the Point Nepean Road, which is one of the main thoroughfares
01:07along the coast, has been closed and it's unclear when it will reopen.
01:11It's also unclear when those residents that evacuated will be able to return home.
01:16We did speak to the SES Sorrento Unit Controller, Mark Doerr, here's what he had to say.
01:22I would say at the moment VicRoads is reluctant to open the road until we know what that potential,
01:29that mass up that hill is going to do and either how we can mitigate it and move that
01:36mass into a safe location or move it to de-take it away would be the best bet for us.
01:44Realistically for the people to move back in, unknown, but it could be weeks.
01:49So this area is no stranger to landslides, just last week this same house had a minor
01:55landslide occur and it was vacated and taped off.
01:59Also in November 2022 there was another landslide which caused the previous owners of that same
02:04house to evacuate for one and a half days.
02:08Two other people from two separate houses also evacuated and still haven't been able
02:13to return home.
02:15But for now VicEmergency is saying for those camping along this area on the foreshore just
02:21further down it is safe for them but they are warning that this slope here could still
02:26be moving within the coming hours or even days.
02:30So they are telling people to avoid this area and for those affected residents there is
02:35a relief centre open as well nearby in Dramana.