FIRES: Robert Gottliebsen: "A fire policy disaster"

Haseleu farm photo above

Photos by Mario Galteri

Victoria and Australia are going to be deeply shocked at what will be revealed at the fire Royal Commission, if the Royal Commissioner does the job properly. A number of fire protection officials have not been prepared to speak in public about what has been happening because they knew they would be ridiculed and it would cost them their jobs. In winters gone by, fire protection people warned friends a disaster was possible (although they would try hard to avoid it) and vowed that in the inquiry that would inevitably follow a disaster, they would speak out. No one conceived the scale of the looming disaster.

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