VERY CLOSE CALL: Firefighters from the Ovens Valley CFA strike team work to contain a fire in Nug Nug that sparked from the Mount Buffalo blaze in January when the air quality was ‘Very Poor’ and ‘Hazardous’ for several days. PHOTO: Rhett Chalwell
AUSTRALIA needs a new emergency warning system, the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements has found as it warned about “more frequent and intense” events such as bushfires.
