<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Firefighters have spent almost four hours fighting a </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/fires" rel="" target="" title="blaze"><span>blaze</span></a><span> inside one of </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/victoria" rel="" target="" title="Victoria's"><span>Victoria's</span></a><span> largest power stations.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Fire Rescue Victoria crews were called to the Yallourn Power Station, in the Latrobe Valley, just before midday after a Triple-Zero caller reported burning embers in a coal bunker from a lightning strike.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Firefighters arrived to find the fire about 40 metres by 20 metres high.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/vince-mcmahon-police-video-shows-former-wwe-executives-160kmph-car-crash-on-a-connecticut-highway/ab9aa57f-4e6f-4507-85fe-5923e093abc9" target="_blank"><strong><span>Police video shows Vince McMahon's 160kmph car crash</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>About 40 firefighters remain at the scene as they try to control the blaze. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Peter Marshall, from the United Firefighters Union, said he was unsure how firefighters would control the fire. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"What we have here is a critical crisis in the fire service, where firefighters' morale is so depleted, because the government have deserted them", he told Jacqui Felgate. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-yallourn-power-station-fire/a0f3e99c-3ec2-462c-86c3-93acf4ea0320" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ambulance Victoria have also been called. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The coal-fired power station supplies 22 per cent of Victoria's power.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The site, which has been running for more than 100 years, is due to close in 2028 as part of a $5 billion transformation into a 'low-carbon emissions hub' by owners Energy Australia.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727"><em><strong><span>Apple App Store</span></strong></em></a><span> </span><em><strong><span>and</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&amp;hl=en_AU&amp;pli=1"><em><strong><span>Google Play</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>.</span></strong></em></div></div>