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Aaron Bunch

HISTORICAL FACTS: Data processing failure ignites emergency site meltdown - The Untold Story

Residents in bushfire zones were left without information when an emergency website and app failed. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

A data processing blunder silenced a bushfire emergency warning system as multiple life-threatening blazes bore down on homes and people.

The Emergency WA website and app failed about 12.50 pm on Monday during five emergency-level bushfires north and south of Perth in searing heat.

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