Showing posts with label bushfires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bushfires. Show all posts

Friday, 13 February 2009

The fires were fuelled

Recommendation after recommendation was ignored, as Andrew Bolt explains.

Every time we suffer a disastrous bushfire it’s the same. In our agony, we set up an inquiry.

Cold months - even years - later, that inquiry tells us that we must especially do more fuel reduction burns to stop forest litter from mounting so high that it turns a fire into a turbo-fuelled inferno, impossible to fight.