AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2006
Vic: Information van planned to help catch firebugs
MELBOURNE, Dec 18 AAP - Police in Victoria are stepping up efforts to to trace arsonists
responsible for a bushfire that led to the death of a man and destroyed thousands of hectares
of bush.
Victoria Police said today they would set up an information van near where the fire
is thought to have begun last Thursday.
Figures today showed the Coopers Creek fire has so far burned more than 21,000 hectares
of bushland, and is still raging out of control.
The fire is blamed for causing the death of 48-year-old Donald Dosser of Longford who
fell off a trailer while battling the blaze.
Police said in a statement that they had received significant public assistance in
a bid to catch the firebugs, but are still trying to identify people who travelled along
the Walhalla-Tyers Road between 10.30am (AEDT) and 11.30am on the day the fire started.
They have eliminated two young men seen on a motorbike in the area as suspects in their
investigation.
The information van will be available between 8am and 11am in the Walhalla CBD and
between 11am and 1pm at the Erica Town Hall tomorrow.
It will be at the Coopers Creek crime scene, on the Walhalla-Tyers Road at the site
of the old Jubilee School, on Thursday between 10.30am and 11.30am.
Anyone with information about the fires has been urged to contact Crime Stoppers on
1800 333 000 or the Warragul CIU on 5622 7111.
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