Two years on, CFA volunteer sleeping in shed: “They could also apply to the Volunteer Fire Brigades Association for a cash grant of up to $5000. But despite losing his home and all of his family’s possessions, Mr Adamson’s application was met with a long delay and a cut-price payout of $2500.”
Not good enough VFBV!
Perhaps a bit sensationalist, but I think it points to some underlying issues in the management of the VFBV.
Finally! Common sense has prevailed, and the signs have been changed back to the old ‘clock face’ design.
The old design was unreadable and a complete knee jerk reaction from HQ (based on bad user testing).
Sparks to fly as Baillieu launches fire front
…that between 2002 and Black Saturday on February 7 last year, the government had ignored 25 recommendations from various reports on measures to better prepare the state for emergencies such as bushfires. A year after the commission’s interim report, Mr Brumby had still not implemented all its recommendations on warning systems, emergency management plans, fire refuges and so-called neighbourhood safer places…
Too true. Even aspects of the 1998 Linton Report have not been implemented.
A Traralgon CFA fire truck, responding to an emergency call-out, was travelling east on the Princes Highway when it collided with a sedan travelling south on Park Lane.
It’s not nice when this happens.
Judgement Day: Black Saturday report release looms
It was the American wildfire veteran Jerry Williams who told the inquiry, “we can’t be fooling around on the edge of this problem and hope to solve it…it needs political leadership.”
But where will it come from?
This is the best analysis I’ve read so far on the Royal Commission:
Policies are one thing and personnel another, true. But surely policies are nothing without good people to put them into practice?
The defence has claimed the accused has been bashed and also that his files have been obtained by the person who did the bashing,
Corrections Victoria last night denied defence barrister David Sexton’s claim that a prisoner who attacked his client had managed to gain access to the accused man’s personal prison file. “There is no evidence to support this claim and we don’t believe this happened,” a spokeswoman said.
The defence also claimed that prison staff have beaten the accused to the point of losing consciousness,
Mr Sexton told the court his client had a severe intellectual disability, was illiterate and was receiving medication for depression, panic, anxiety and social phobia.
He also said prison staff had taunted the man and he was once assaulted to the point of losing consciousness.
Finally, they claim that, ‘reporting of his client’s charges had been “rather hysterical at times”’.
I’m not too sure about that.
This is not helpful:
A man accused of lighting a deadly bushfire on Black Saturday in Churchill has twice been attacked in custody, his lawyer claims.
Nor is this:
The lawyers have described some of the reporting on the case as hysterical.
A nice background into Jack Rush, QC:
“… he was interested in the truth.”
