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Victoria emergency services minister urges residents to respect roadblocks and avoid fire scars

Vicki Ward, Victoria’s emergency services minister, is providing an update on the ongoing firefighting effort in the state.

We need to have people go in, qualified people who know what they’re doing, going in there to check to make sure that roadways are safe because trees can just fall on people.

We do not want to see those kinds of incidents. We do not want to see people who have done the right thing, who have left early, who have saved their lives, the lives of their families, then go back into a fire area only to be harmed, possibly killed by a falling tree.

Source: Guardian - World News