A review of responses to this year's summer bushfires has found units withdrew from a fire in the Gell River area in the mistaken belief it was out.
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The fire burned for about 100 days in the state's remote south-west and took out more than 34,220 hectares of land.
In total, 95,430 hectares of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area was burned and 210,000 hectares of the state in total.
The review by the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council noted this was the largest amount of land burned since 1967.
The report, released on Thursday, said the response to the Gell River fire "could have been handled differently but was managed competently according to accepted industry practice".
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It had been asserted that a fire at Great Pine Tier could have been stopped if firefighters had been permitted to use machinery in the World Heritage Area and that arguments between agencies meant a fire at Riveaux Road went unchecked.
AFAC said in its report there was no ban from the Parks and Wildlife Service on the use of machinery in the TWWHA and it was not possible to say whether it would have made a difference.
It said any shortcomings on the management of the Riveaux Road fire were not because of interagency rivalry.
The report made nine recommendations, which included the creation of a group of volunteer remote area firefighters, and questioned whether emergency communication methods needed to be updated.
There were 2000 personnel involved in fighting the summer's bushfires.
