Dinner Plain residents are pleading for a safety park to be established in the popular snow resort village in order to protect the community from a future fire event.
Since 2003, the community of about 100 per-manent residents have stared down five bush-fires with forced evacuations on three occasions.
Over the past two decades, the community has raised with the Alpine Shire the need to provide a safety park or refuge but those requests have gone wanting.
The former vice chair of the Dinner Plains Community Association, Peter McKenna, said at one point the Alpine Shire investigated whether it could provide a village green as a “go to” zone but the idea was terminated because it couldn’t satisfy CFA regulations in the event of a bushfire.
Mr McKenna said the Alpine Shire had also indicated there was “insufficient land”.
IMAGE: Dinner Plain residents believe land (above) near the Alpine School would be perfect for a ‘safety park’ for the community to shelter in the event of future bushfires.
