VIC:Fires cost a conservative $4.4 billion

AAP General News (Australia)
08-02-2010
VIC:Fires cost a conservative $4.4 billion

The royal commission into the Black Saturday bushfires estimates they cost four-point-four
billion dollars .. but it could have been more.

The report .. released on Saturday .. said the commission alone cost 90 million dollars.

It also put the value of the 173 lives lost on February 7 last year at 645 million dollars.

The commission says the government spent 593 million dollars fighting the fires ..

but it couldn't estimate the cost of injuries .. or value of lost stock and crops.

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