A ONE-MAN protest threatened to bring an evacuation fire drill in the Otways to a standstill.
Safety concerns over town’s bushfire evacuation
Lavers Hill teacher Kate Doherty leads pupils to waitng buses.
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Far better story regarding this to be found here http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/11/18/3370728.htm highlighting actual problems with the drill and giving the community a real idea of what went wrong.
shame on you colac herald for not even mentioning the fact that the pager messages didnt go out on time – perhaps the difference between life and death in a real fire.
Great idea to evacuate the kids, but i have a question. In theory the kids could be at the beach at Johanna for hours if they were evacuated – wouldn’t it make sense for them to have taken their school bags (a food supply each) and water bottles with them? Perhaps have suitable clothes kept at school for each child too – as opposed to summer dresses and shorts which we all know are extremely inappropriate in a fire situation.
Also curious to know how long it would take for buses to get to the school in a real evacuation as for this fake evacuation they were ready and waiting.
I’m also betting the road wasn’t clogged with other residents trying to get out…although i particularly like Mr Wyld’s tree imitation.
It was a nice idea, but too politically correct to have worked properly