Victoria's killer trees are marked with a yellow K before they are pulled down. It is a tough, arduous job and there are over 8,600 kilometres of fire-ravaged roads for Army crews to contend with.
They are dotted along hundreds of kilometres of roads, their scorched trunks marked in spray paint with a big yellow"K".Army crews face a massive task assessing 8,600 kilometres of fire-affected Victorian roadsVictoria's state of disaster was lifted at midnight on Saturday night
"Killer trees" are exactly what their name suggests; tall timber, so badly damaged in the fires that they could fall onto the road at any time. "There'd probably be about two, three tons of weight coming down on you. It's not going to end well," Jules Vickers told the ABC.It is his job is to work out how to safely bring these trees down.
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