Poor mobile phone coverage and the timeliness of bushfire emergency alerts have been highlighted as systemic issues in New South Wales during the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires.
The fatal Kangawalla fire, which devastated the town of Wytaliba near Glenn Innes on November 8 during 2019, was on Wednesday used as a case study by the NSW Bushfires Coronial Inquiry at Lidcombe to examine the issues in detail.