Bureaucrats underestimated the danger posed by drought conditions and hot weather before proceeding with Cobaw state forest burnoff,expert saysThe controlled burn in Victoria’s Cobaw state forest that jumped containment lines during extreme conditions in October was doomed to fail before the first match was struck.
It razed four homes and burned more than 3000 hectares of bush and farmland, forcing hundreds of residents to flee, and before it was controlled.
On Thursday,government ministers and senior bureaucrats faced a public meeting in Lancefield following a scathing independent report into what went inaccurate.
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Source: theguardian.com