Residents are livid after a council employee in Melbourne's west sparked a massive grass hearth behind properties this morning.
Householders had been compelled to evacuate their properties in Taylors Lakes after a grass hearth raged uncontrolled simply after 11.30am.
Hearth Rescue Victoria Commander Tony Discipline mentioned the fireplace was sparked by a council employee mowing the grass.
"It seems to be as if he has most likely hit a rock within the grass space and began the fireplace, Discipline mentioned.
"It is not advisable to be doing that type of work on a day like as we speak, with excessive temperatures and winds."
Valerie Skinner, a close-by resident, mentioned it was extraordinarily scary.
"I'm shaking now," she mentioned.
Brimbank Metropolis Council Appearing Director Infrastructure and Metropolis Companies Tom Razmovski mentioned there was no hazard to the employee or close by properties.
"Council's tractor and slasher mower operator was conducting regular programmed work upkeep within the space on the time," Razmovski mentioned in a press release.
"Even after surveying the realm for particles and rocks, the operator believes he hit a rock which sparked the fireplace.
"On the time of the mowing, the temperature was 30C and security precautions had been in place which allowed for equipment to be operated."
It is not the primary time homes close to the parkland have come underneath menace by hearth.
The identical parkland caught hearth two years in the past.
"We're nonetheless all getting over it," Skinner mentioned.
"I misplaced all the things in my yard, all our backyard, the sheds all the things. 1000's and hundreds of dollars."
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