Special Inquirer and former Victorian Country Fire Service chief, Euan Ferguson, found the majority of warnings issued to Yarloop and Cookernup residents on January 7 were “neither timely nor accurate ...
Yarloop residents were not adequately warned of an approaching bushfire earlier this year and calls for additional firefighting resources went unanswered for hours, an investigation has found. The ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. RODY: I'm Rody and I'm in year 3 and I'm from Yarloop. EDEN: My name's Eden and I'm grade 6. COLLIN: My ...
PROFESSIONAL firefighters have rejected the concept of a dedicated country service, saying it isn’t needed if existing agencies work together better. The report by former Victorian and South ...
Volunteer associations combine to call for the inquiry’s focus to be broadened to include an earlier fire that claimed four lives near Esperance Volunteer firefighters have criticised the limited ...
Western Australia’s fire authority confirms earlier alerts listed the names of roads that encircled the town rather than explicitly mentioning Yarloop The first emergency alert mentioning Yarloop by ...
A massive bushfire has destroyed at least a third of a small town in Western Australia, 125km south of Perth, and is threatening more towns still. An estimated 95 houses out of 300 in the town of ...
AN independent report into the Yarloop bushfire has confirmed claims that residents were not properly warned as the firestorm bore down on the timber town. Special Inquirer and former Victorian ...