Most would agree that enhancing our fire trail network would be of enormous benefit to our communities and to the safety of our firefighters. However, the new section 62W suggests an intent to place some additional financial burden for the construction and maintenance of fire trails on private lands onto private land owners or occupiers.
When the fire trails are constructed they must be done in accordance with fire trail standards. There exists a potential situation where a landowner or occupier could be expected to fork out some/all of the money to do that. This seems to be the crux of new section 62W.
All fire trails must be seen as a community asset, they cannot become a burden for private land owners.