The Rural Fire Service withdrew vital firefighting equipment from a small NSW community on a day it came under intense bushfire attack, an RFS captain has said.Brendon O'Connor said the RFS organisation ignored requests for hazard reduction burning around Balmoral Village last year.The town is now undertaking an enormous clean-up effort to remove many of its trees burnt in the fire.
With the Green Wattle Creek fire ripping through bushland in the Southern Highlands, vital firefighting services were directed elsewhere, he said. "On the Thursday and Friday we had a great number of resources, but unfortunately a decision was made on Friday evening to remove all resources from Balmoral, including bulk water, and that was replaced with a small water truck," he said."To have all resources removed and when it went bad, those resources couldn't get back into us and the whole village was burning."
'If we can learn to do things better in the future. It's not about pointing fingers at individuals — it's about having the right resources and funding to do the work we're here for.' So perhaps painting the RFS as the villains here isn't the right call
I wonder if small villages might be looking to buy their own fire trucks and set up a novel thing like a volounteer fire brigade to defend their community.
Politicising these awful bugfires is really sad.
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