Honouring Vic fireys killed 20 years ago
It's been 20 years since five volunteer Victorian firefighters died in the Linton 炎 which 軍隊d the bushfire fighting 軍隊 to change its safety 手続きs.
Matthew Armstrong, Jason Thomas, Chris Evans, Stuart Davidson and Garry Vredeveldt from the Country 解雇する／砲火／射撃 当局's Geelong West 旅団 died on December 2, 1998 in the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 which 燃やすd across a 私的な 所有物／資産／財産 and 明言する／公表する forest.
A 記念 service will be held at Geelong West 記念の Park on Sunday at 6pm.
The volunteers had gone out to the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 before 存在 caught by 炎上s partly because the 乗組員 had not heard the 勝利，勝つd had changed direction, a 2002 coronial 検死 設立する.
検死官 Graeme Johnstone had said 決定的な safety （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） was not efficiently and 適切な spread at Linton, and made 55 推薦s after a 非常に長い 検死.
Father 法案 Thomas said his son Jason had never been on a firetruck in the forest and had been with the 旅団 just 12 months before going out to the 致命的な 炎.
CFA 事実上の／代理 長，指導者 officer Stephanie Rotarangi said the 当局 had changed its safety 手続きs, communication, training and 器具／備品 since the 解雇する／砲火／射撃.
"The 遺産／遺物 of this event continues to 運動 our pre-season and 現在進行中の training," she said.
"If there's one way we can honour those 勇敢に立ち向かう men, it's to 確実にする we continue to 改善する the way we train our firefighters to 避ける this happening again."
