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      <name>Wilmington Fire</name>
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        <heading>Wilmington Fire</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Wilmington Fire</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" uid="b3a64cd7a9c046bd8bfbca4b92cb0b1e">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO (Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:13):</by>  Supplementary: does the minister acknowledge that locals, both CFS and farm fire units, were advised not to create containment lines in the Mount Remarkable National Park?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
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            <name>Minister for Emergency Services and Correctional Services</name>
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            <name>Minister for Autism</name>
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            <name>Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing</name>
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          <question date="2025-03-06T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Wilmington Fire</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5413" referenceid="07ef1306959a44c38acfb7dce9a031db" uid="8cc63ee7bc414152a842839c19dee698">The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (Minister for Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Autism, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (15:13):</by>  I thank the member for her question. I believe I responded to this in regard to dry firefighting and made it very clear that my advice was that that was not provided. This has to be a coordinated effort. The CFS will provide the advice on the day about what is the best direction, what we need to be doing.</text>
        <text id="20250306fb71988f6eae490ab0000245">As I have just highlighted, there are a lot of different emergency services moving about on the one site. When aerial support is being used, we need to make sure that it is done in a safe way, and it has to be done through a coordinated effort. The amount of work that goes into making sure the right resources are used at the right time is crucial, and that is why it is done through a central control.</text>
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