AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2009
Vic: No warning for Marysville - resident
The effectiveness of Victoria's bushfire warning systems have again been questioned
.. during discussions ahead of the royal commission into this year's fatal fires.
The issue has emerged again at the devastated town of Marysville during today's community
consultation meeting.
Local resident JILL SANGUINETTI has told royal commissioner BERNARD TEAGUE the state
government's Department of Sustainability and Environment failed to issue any warning
that a fire was approaching her town.
Mrs SANGUINETTI says if vital information had been broadcast even 30 minutes before
the fire arrived .. many lives could have been saved.
Other residents have told the commissioner that there was a common perception that
Marysville couldn't burn.
The Black Saturday fires claimed 34 lives and destroyed every building in Marysville.
AAP RTV sjm/tdb/mh/sw/wf
KEYWORD: TEAGUE (MARYSVILLE)
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