Vic: Man charged over deadly Churchill bushfire =2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-13-2009
Vic: Man charged over deadly Churchill bushfire =2

The man was charged on three counts in Morwell Magistrates Court on Friday - one of
arson causing death, one of intentionally or recklessly causing a bushfire, and one of
possessing child pornography.

He was transferred to Melbourne on Friday for his own safety and will reappear in Melbourne
Magistrates Court next week.

The court imposed a suppression order on all details of his identity.

The almost-36,000ha Churchill fire in the Latrobe Valley region of Gippsland remains
out of control, but is no longer posing a threat to communities in the region.

It has killed 12 people from the town of Callignee, four in Hazelwood and one each
in Jeeralang and Koornalla.

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