Former FRNSW Commissioner Greg Mullins as an RFS volunteer.
"By that time what we'd predicted earlier in the year had manifested... That something is on everybody's TV screens at the moment,"he said."We saw it coming. We tried to warn the government."
While he welcomed the scheduled meeting and said he hoped the Prime Minister would attend,he said"there could have been real concrete differences had we been listened to"in April.
He said an intervention in April would have given the government an opportunity to lease more large aircraft tankers,like the one that contained the fire in Turramurra on Tuesday,in time to help fight the fires currently ravaging northern NSW and southern Queensland.
However,he would not comment on whether homes and lives could have been saved."I get quite emotional thinking about it because I've seen so many people lose their lives and homes over the years."