Crews complete fencing repair works after bushfires

 On-floor exams to update or restore broken boundary fence strains adjacent National Parks and State Forests following final summer’s bushfires are complete.Forest Fire Management Victoria (FFMVic) recuperation groups have assessed one hundred fifteen hearthplace-affected homes withinside the Upper Murray Fire District to decide harm to fences because of the Walwa hearthplace.FFMVic Upper Murray District Manager, Dave Jenson, said: “Since February, our crews have labored tirelessly to finish fencing exams masking nearly three hundred kilometres.“That’s the equal distance to riding from Melbourne to Wodonga.”

The exams had been a part of the Victorian Government’s Boundary Fencing Program which supplied eligible landowners $5000 consistent with kilometre for substances to restore or improve hearthplace-affected fences on the general public land interface.Through the application, landowners had been given the possibility to improve their boundary fences to cause them to hearthplace-resistant with concrete posts and higher capable of exclude pests which include wild dogs.“FFMVic crews and contractors have additionally finished extra than a hundred and seventy kilometres of unsafe tree works close to boundary fence strains to lessen the chance to landholders, fencing contractors and BlazeAid volunteers,” 

Mr Jenson said.“We understand that clearing and rebuilding fencing that’s been broken via way of means of hearthplace is backbreaking paintings and on the way to assist landholders as they rebuild is extraordinarily pleasing.”The Upper Murray fires had been commenced via way of means of lights on 29 December 2019 and burnt about 226,000-hectares of public and personal land.All on-floor recuperation works follow DHHS necessities to prioritise the protection of our body of workers and the Victorian community.For in addition statistics concerning this application touch FFMVic on (02) 6071 5359 or electronic mail hume.recuperation@delwp.vic.gov.auTo discover approximately different help to be had to landowners please visit: www.vic.gov.au/bushfire-recuperation-victoria

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