A coroner?s inquest jury will make its final recommendations this afternoon after two weeks of deliberations following a five-week inquest.
The jury listened to more than 50 witnesses and heard some extremely emotional testimony relating to a house fire which destroyed a family 17 months ago.
The fire which broke out around noon April 22, 2001 claimed the life of Asha-Jade McLean, 3, her brother Ellias McLean, 4, and their great-grandmother Pearl Shaw, 75.
Robert McLean, grandfather of the two children who perished told the jury "you can?t put a price on human life" and how he believes having full-time firefighters at a fire station only one mile away the day a fire broke out at 4141 Roy St. in Hanmer would have resulted in three lives being saved.
McLean said Valley East does not have an adequate fire department to serve almost 25,000 people.
