A Rural Fire Service commander tells an inquest into the 2019-20 bushfire disaster that he did not ignore concerns raised by a pilot about the decision to conduct a back-burn that jumped containment lines when the weather changed.
A Rural Fire Service commander has told an inquest he did not ignore concerns raised by a pilot about a back-burn during the Black Summer bushfires, which jumped containment lines and destroyed 100 homes west of Sydney.RFS personnel have defended a back-burn associated with the fire
James Carter, a qualified fire behaviour analyst with the RFS, had been deployed to the Gospers Mountain Incident Management Team as a divisional commander. Mr Carter said the location was chosen after two and six millimetres of rain fell across the fire ground in the days prior. Mr Carter said that short of a large air tanker, he felt "very comfortable" about the amount of resources available at the time to conduct the burn, despite more than 100 fires burning across other parts of the state.
In the statement, Mr Banffy said he communicated through radio messages and had landed his plane to speak with the team in person about what he had seen from the air.
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