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Fire Memorial ColumnPrint Page 
09-June-2023
Photographs supplied by Adrian Cox
The column commemorates the men who died in fire in Unit 31 of the Kew Cottages in 1996. It is a granite column on a stepped granite base with the names of the victims engraved on it.
In 1996 tragedy struck as nine intellectually disabled men died in a fire at one of the Kew Cottages residential units. A coronial inquest found that the state had contributed to their deaths as there was no fire protection system in place at the time of the fire.
Location
| Address: | 6 Main Drive, Kew, 3101 |
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| State: | VIC |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -37.798037 Long: 145.024553 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Monument |
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| Monument Theme: | Disaster |
| Sub-Theme: | Fire |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 08-April-1996 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 08-April-1996 |
Dedication
| Approx. Monument Dedication Date: | 1996 |
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Front Inscription
Source: MAA place to remember those who died
8th April 1996
[ Names ]
‘Our lives were enriched for having known you.’
Monument details supplied by Monument Australia - www.monumentaustralia.org.au
