WA: Coroner due to release findings on fatal bushire

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: March 11, 2005 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
03-11-2005
WA: Coroner due to release findings on fatal bushire

By Tim Clarke

PERTH, March 11 AAP - Western Australia's coroner was today to deliver his findings
into the deaths of two women who died in a vicious bushfire that swept through the state's
Great Southern region in 2003.

Western Australia's government-owned power supplier Western Power was bracing itself
for criticism over the deaths, at the same time as it today fought to restore power to
72,000 customers hit by new blackouts.

The inquest earlier this year heard clashing power lines caused the ...

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