Western Australia's emergency services minister admits mistakes may have been made in directing resources to the state's deadly bushfires, but he's passionately defended authorities who did everything "humanly possible".
Joe Francis strongly defended the emergency response to the fires but conceded "things don't always go to plan".
Firefighters are continuing to battle the bushfire that has destroyed 128 houses and killed two men, all but completely destroying the small town of Yarloop in the state's southwest.
Attention has already turned to the adequacy of the alerts provided to the residents of Yarloop in the hours before their town was engulfed.
Kate Barry, who fled her home in Yarloop with her four children after a volunteer firefighter told her to urgently evacuate at 4pm on Thursday, said the rapid escalation was a shock.
"I had been checking the DFES website on my phone all day and there was no mention of Yarloop which is why I was so complacent," she told AAP.
"I don't think anyone understands why we weren't told."
Mr Francis defended the work of the firefighters and their management on Tuesday in the face of mounting questions as to whether warnings were distributed effectively.
He said management, including sector commanders and incident controllers "may have made a mistake but they made the best call on the information that they had at the time and unfortunately some things don't always go to plan".
"What do you want us to do? Everything that was done to get people to that town was done that was humanly possible."
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services released a timeline of events, confirming an emergency warning was issued for Yarloop half an hour before the fire hit.
Yarloop was "explicitly included" in an emergency warning at 7.35pm on Thursday evening according to a DFES statement, with the fire engulfing the town by approximately 8pm.
The statement said DFES will analyse the telephone warnings issued during the bushfire.
Mr Francis said there would be a thorough review into every aspect of the bushfire and the way it was managed.
Murray-Wellington MP Murray Cowper said he was aware of issues with emergency alerts as well as resource distribution at the peak of the bushfire.
"Let me tell you something, at the coal face, those warnings are sometimes an hour, maybe two hours old, and in the scheme of an emergency situation - that's old information," Mr Cowper told 6PR Radio.
"As I understand, I do know that there were some fire units sitting in Boddington that weren't being utilised."
Several federal MPs visited the fire-affected region on Tuesday, announcing a commonwealth financial assistance package including 13 weeks of income support through the disaster recovery allowance.
The Forrest Highway, linking the coastal towns of Mandurah and Bunbury, reopened on Tuesday morning while several other arterial roads remain closed.
A watch and act alert remains in place in the shires of Harvey and Waroona, with the fire perimeter now exceeding 327km, having destroyed more than 71,000 hectares.
High humidity and light rain is expected to assist fire fighters overnight, with moderate winds holding the blaze relatively stationary.
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