Authorities say Traralgon residents did not get told to evacuate until it was too late, after the release of a report which found problems delivering localised flood warnings.
Emergency Management Victoria has admitted that its warning systems failed flood victims in eastern Victoria in June last year.Emergency Management Victoria has released a report into its handling of storms in June 2021 flooded parts of Traralgon and left thousands without power
"There were incident controllers in Traralgon that day having breakfast while their cars below them flooded," Nationals Upper House Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath said. "It actually doesn't have any findings or recommendations for EMV or for the community to have confidence that the flood and storm events that ripped through Gippsland won't actually affect them to the same degree," she said.Authorities concede evacuation order came too late
"In terms of the evacuate now [warning], that should have been issued earlier than it was," Mr Crisp said.
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