On 2 December 1998, a wildfire burned through private land and state forest near the township of Linton, Victoria . Firefighters from the Victorian state government's Department of Natural Resources and Country Fire Authority were deployed to fight the fire. At approximately 8.45pm two firefighting appliances and their crews were entrapped and engulfed in fire following an unexpected wind change. The crew of one of those appliances - five men, all volunteers - were killed. The coronial inquest examining the fire and the deaths was one of the longest-running inquests in the history of the state.
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