Residents may spend weeks evacuated from homes as SES fears more landslide activity in Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

Crews are concerned heavy rain and potential thunderstorms could cause a further “slip-up” in landslide activity after a home crashed down a hill in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, leaving a man in hospital. Emergency services were called to a property on View Point Rd in McCrae – about 60km south of Melbourne – about 8.45am on Tuesday after a landslide caused the building to collapse. The building slid down the hill, injuring a council worker inspecting the property. Images show how the luxury $2m property was left a crumpled wreck by the landslide. . Mornington Peninsula mayor Anthony Marsh said the council worker was in a stable condition. “We are still working with the emergency services and state authorities to secure the site and investigate the circumstances surrounding the landslip,” he said. The incident has been reported to WorkSafe. A section of major thoroughfare Point Nepean Road nearby has been closed as agencies survey the area for further instability. Despite rain on Wednesday morning, there have been no further reports of landslides. State Emergency Service incident controller Mark Daw on Tuesday said one house had been destroyed and three other homes had been damaged, one seriously, in Tuesday’s landslide. Seven homes had been evacuated. Locals have been warned they may not be able to return to their homes for weeks. “We are very grateful that nobody died today,” owner Nick Moran said in a written statement. “Our thoughts are with the injured Mornington (Peninsula) Shire employee.” “There’s quite a considerable amount of slip that’s happened up there,” Mr Daw said. He said the SES had responded to smaller landslides in the area before “but nothing of this scale”. Mr Daw said there’d been some further movement on Wednesday morning, with concerns heavy rain and thunderstorms forecast throughout the day could cause further slips. “We had a tiny little bit (of movement) in the early hours of this morning, which was just 2mm, but since then it has not moved,” Mr Daw told 3AW on Wednesday. “We’ve got a lot of thunder and lightning happening and we’re concerned about the potential for rain … we might have up to 20mm coming through. “We can’t predict what potentially could come down, we know that there probably will be another slip but we’re unsure of how much.” He said geotechnical engineers were “checking out” the area on Wednesday morning. “We are still worried there is potential for a further slip up there, and we have the monitoring equipment up there at the moment for that,” Mr Daw told the ABC. A Victoria SES spokesman confirmed crews were still in control of the scene on Wednesday afternoon and would continue to monitor as thunderstorms threatened to move in across the state on Wednesday. The spokesman said SES crews would hand off to the local council in the coming days so they could begin a recovery phase. A Frankston man in his 50s suffered a broken leg on Tuesday after the home crashed down the hill. He was treated by paramedics on the scene and was taken to Frankston Hospital in a stable condition.