A case study in folly #5: Firestorm of incompetence – what Yankees Gap says about modern fire management
The fire that should never have happened
This is not just a story of a fire that got out of control — it’s a story of a system that was never in control to begin with.
On 9 August 2018, a landholder on Yankees Gap Road near Bemboka, on the south coast of New South Wales, did what many had done before him.