Maintenance chief says new system would have led to pole No. 4 being replaced

By Andrew Thomson
Updated December 2 2019 - 3:18pm, first published 11:00am
New regime: Farmer Jack Kenna with the pole that snapped on his farm and caused a bushfire. A Powercor maintenance chief says the pole would now be replaced.
New regime: Farmer Jack Kenna with the pole that snapped on his farm and caused a bushfire. A Powercor maintenance chief says the pole would now be replaced.

A Powercor maintenance chief has admitted that if the pole that started The Sisters/Garvoc bushfire was tested under new inspection regime forced by community pressure it would have been immediately replaced.

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