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Ms Stubbs' property adjoins the property with the tree in Linksview Road, Springwood, the site used to identify a fire that burned out over 2,000 hectares and which reached a state-of-emergency status. Ms Stubbs said that, earlier in the year, she had received a notification from Endeavour Energy asking her to cut back foliage near electric cables, which appeared to relate to a straggly red bottlebrush plant near the wires. She said her neighbor, a tenant, told her he had received a similar document relating to the large tree at the front of his landlord’s property. Warning of cable at heart of Springwood inferno

The Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, bushfire that claimed almost 200 properties might have been prevented if required treemaintenance had been carried out. A tree with cables running through its branches is believed to be the seat of the fire that jumped a road then engulfed houses in Springwood, Winmalee and Yellow Rock. Fairfax Media established that an order to prune the tree had been issued by the power company in July. A resident said she heard noises that sounded like cables arcing, before the fire jumped across the road to ignite bush cover.

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