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In response to the community frustrations that have been aired this morning as a result of the significant bushfire damage seen across south-eastern Victoria, Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp said his priority at the moment is keeping people safe.

"I quite well understand some of the community sentiment but the important thing for us, we’ve still got the potential threat to life, threat to properties and we will stay focused around that," he told Today.

"I do understand some of the sentiment, I do know when people are talking about - in particular the Bunyip fire - I know there were planned burns there in 2016 and 2017.


However, planned burns can do some work in terms of slowing down the spread and the severity, but it’s not the panacea, it’s not the cure all and a fire such as this one well and truly went through and went over those planned burns."

Commissioner Crisp also said that recommendations from a Royal Commission after the Black Saturday fires - the worst in the state's history - were not ignored.

"There’s been very much a shift in relation to planned burns being based on actual hectares, which is a fairly blunt measure. The move now is to a risk-based approach," he said.

"I’ve been in this job for about six months, I’ve been out, I’ve listened to Parks people, I’ve seen what they’ve been doing in relation to the land and fire management and I’ve been very, very impressed with what they’re doing.

"We want to do whatever we can to keep communities safe but at the same time, the window for conducting planned burns is very, very limited when you think about temperatures, you think about fuel load.

"What we’ve seen over the state in the last couple years - particularly in Gippsland - as we’ve seen there’s been record low rainfall and that’s why we’ve got what we’ve got in relation to these fires on the landscapes with lightning strikes very quickly starting fires."




it would seem to me   that a very dry season would mean more burning off.....

we have people complaining   they didnt have any burning off in their area...


are the people who have lost everything  expected to be impressed with that news...

cods wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 8:22am:


The problem is that it's been so darn dry for the last few years that "controlled" burning gets out of control all too often.

A classic Catch 22 

my neighbour Billy starts a fire nearly every september on the local show holiday. then he heads off to the show.  all the local bush fire brigade are at the show.

Billy lives at the top of the hill.

the fire slowly burns down the hill.

i sometimes go and have a look at the "fire front' and the flames are 6 inches high and burning so mildly that you can step over the fire front.

Billy is a smart fella.

some local moronic greenies brought a farm and put up signs saying "closed for revegetation".
within 2 years it was 6 foot high razor grass , braken fern and 100's of small gums and other associated crap.

it will burn in a blaze and hopefully burn their stupid log cabin and all their fences.

good , then they might piss off back to the inner suburbs and eat their smashed avacado on toast and let 'real' australians manage the bush 

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 10:15am:



Ya rude prick, you obviously choose a time of the year when conditions , wind direction and such like   best suits the task at hand,

You sit down and enjoy that cuppa Cods . I shall pry this tick off your ass ,,


SPLAT!!, Now thats a surprise, these things are usually full of blood, But all i could find was a load of piss and wind




Hard n Fast

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 11:06am:




we never do.....9 houses at least have gone   so far everyone is safe so thats a blessing.....but the horror for them isnt over......


seems to me we should be better at this....isnt prevention better than the cure???....we have had a long hot dry summer  not even too mention a 10 yr drought..... ... yet nothing was done to prevent this from spreading as fast as it did....


but that ok lets just have another enquiry .

that at least looks good.

Grappler Racist Filth wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 3:44pm:

 

indeed graps, one of those ridge top fires took 24 hours to burn from the top to the bottom.  it was moving at a snails pace and then you get lovely green regrowth .

Jasin wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 4:02pm:



JaSin , Now that we have connected can I be totally honest with you ?


Hard n fast

Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 4:08pm:



You are solig gold Mr Hammer



Hard n Fast