Say, does this sound familiar, particularly when we are talking about fires in places like the national parks, Florida, and California? Angry survivors blame council ‘green’ policy (Andrea Petrie, Arthurs Creek)
ANGRY residents last night accused local authorities of contributing to the bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk.
During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne’s northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council’s help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. “We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” he said.
Sorry for the language, but, how many times do you see a quote like that in a newspaper? And then it got even angrier.
