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Communications, fire trails top of wish-list, inquest hears.
(From Canberra Times)
More computer power for communications and more money for fire trail maintenance emerged as the big- ticket items on police and firefighters' wish-lists after the devastating bushfires that ravaged the Kosciuszko National Park in late 2002 and early 2003.
NSW Deputy Coroner Carl Milovanovich's inquest into the fires received official recommendations from NSW Police and the Rural Fire Service in Queanbeyan yesterday.Two-thirds of the national park was destroyed by bushfires between December 2002 and February 2003, a period that also saw Canberra invaded by the January 18 firestorm which took four lives and injured dozens.
No lives were lost in the national park but millions of dollars in damage was inflicted.
Police Superintendent Brett Henderson recommended the Rural Fire Service adopt a computerised system for recording major events during fire ...
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