A bushfire victim who fled flames as his house"melted" and was left with just the clothes on his back has criticised fire authorities for their inaction.
"The local chaps that have been fighting fires all their life around this area weren't allowed to do anything. With the unions, they can't."Winemaker Andrew Clarke, who watched his bar, gallery and home of 40 years burn in the Bunyip state park fire on Sunday, says he had asked authorities for years to do backburns.
Premier Daniel Andrews said the weekend fires were so fierce, previous burn offs did not slow it down."There has been extensive backburning done around the Bunyip state forest where there were conditions that made it safe to do so," Mr Andrews said in response to Mr Clarke's comments. He denied lessons of Black Saturday had been ignored, adding the opportunity for planned burns is limited, particularly in Gippsland with record low rainfall over the last two years.
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