VIC:Black Saturday recovery within four years

AAP General News (Australia)
02-01-2012
VIC:Black Saturday recovery within four years

YARRA GLEN, Victoria, Feb 1 AAP - Regions of Victoria ravaged in the 2009 Black Saturday
fires will be rebuilt within four years.

Deputy Premier Peter Ryan spoke of the rebuilding process at the launch of a Victorian
Bushfire Recovery report, ahead of the third anniversary of the February 7 disaster which
killed 173 people.

"I am confident that within the next two, three, four years, this whole region and
across the state will have recovered very substantially from this shocking disaster, recovered
in a material, in a reconstruction, in a physical sense," he said.

"The issues around the poor people that suffered this, of course, for many of them
they will never recover, that's the fact.

"For many others it's a generational issue (that) we will continue to support them."

Mr Ryan said the recovery effort was continuing, with about 77 per cent of the homes
damaged having either been rebuilt, going through the process of rebuilding or owners
having found another property.

Another 16 per cent of residents were in the process of making application to begin rebuilding.

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