Bushfire Evacuees Return to Homes and Businesses

Residents displaced by bushfires in western Victoria have started to return but many have nothing left to come home to. More than two dozen homes along with outbuildings and vehicles have been destroyed after bushfires raged in and around the Grampians National Park this week. Premier Jacinta Allan said on Feb. 15 that roughly 24 homes, three businesses and 23 outbuildings had been destroyed at Pomonal, but that number could rise. One home was also lost at Dadswells Bridge. “That’s really tough for those families,” Ms. Allan told reporters at the Dadswells Bridge branch of the Country Fire Authority. “And it also reverberates across the broader community.”...