Heaps of people are coming out of the woodwork squealing that that won't have an opportunity to address the Royal Commission. Many of them apparently want to squawk about not being warned of the fire danger.
Counsel assisting the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, Jack Rush QC, says while people knew February 7 would be a day of risk, they were not aware they would be facing a fire of "phenomenal" speed.
The Black Saturday bushfires ripped across the state in February, claiming 173 lives, devastating 78 communities and destroying 2,029 homes.
Mr Rush told the directions hearing in the Victorian County Court that the commission will hear evidence in the coming weeks that for many people, the warnings were not a trigger to leave their homes early.
"Whilst people knew that the 7th of February would be a day of extreme risk, they did not have the understanding that the risk, as the McArthur Forest Fire Index demonstrated, carried with it the potential of a fire that could not be fought," he said.
Well, the warnings that were put out prior to that weekend were pretty graphic and anyone who didn't understand that they could be facing an extreme event must have...
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