Updated 29 Nov 2011 Peter Forrestal updates us thus:
It would seem that truth is not only the first casualty in war but also in serious bushfires.
The following is an update designed to correct some of the inaccuracies of earlier reporting and shed some light on what has happened. One of the problems with finding out what has happened and was happening was that there were road blocks preventing anyone getting into the affected areas until late Friday.
I talked to a couple of local vignerons in Perth on Friday night and even though they'd been in Margaret River and...