Victorian Retirement Village Fire Safety Issue

Victorian Retirement Village Fire Safety Issue - Victorian Retirement Villages can suffer a heightened danger when it comes to an emergency. There is no law that mandates that a village operator must have an emergency evacuation plan or emergency assembly point.

Given the recent bush fire emergency in South West Victoria and a fire in the recreation centre at a Melbourne retirement village this seems a dangerous oversight by successive Victorian governments.

There is a retirement village in rural Victoria with over 150 units that when quizzed by the elderly residents about the matter advised them that in an emergency they were to ring family or friends for assistance.

Should a disaster occur who would be the most culpable, the operator or the government of the day.

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