South-west MPs Dan Tehan and Roma Britnell call for better fuel load management as Budj Bim burns

Federal MP for Wannon Dan Tehan said after a Macarthur community meeting near the fire on Thursday that governments needed to better manage fuel loads.

"We have to make sure the resources are there so we can go in autumn and spring, and deal with fuel loads," Mr Tehan said.

"This has been raised in royal commissions into fires now for decades, we are not getting it right and we need to look at it again."

South West Coast MP Roma Britnell also attended the meeting, and said she had raised with Victoria's Emergency Management Commission for consecutive years a need to better manage fuel loads.

Ms Britnell said resourcing for the national park, which became a UNESCO-inscribed world heritage site last year, had deteriorated.

"Once upon a time the ranger was there, they would cut the limbs down, put firewood available using the resources, the tracks would be cleared, but now they're just overgrown," she said.

"I have spoken in Parliament about the fuel loads in the park.

"It's been a concern the whole time how the park has been managed, the resourcing of the park, not having enough rangers on site."

Ms Britnell said she was also frustrated with the length of grass on roadsides.

"We need VicRoads, councils and CFA co-ordinated ... it's too hard to get the bureaucracies co-ordinated" she said. "I brought that up with Andrew Crisp just before Christmas."

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