Geelong Advertiser: FUEL-REDUCTION burns will increase fire risk in the Otways, according to Melbourne University experts. Professor David Karoly and Dr Kevin Tolhurst last week held a bushfire seminar attended by Apollo Bay resident Simon Pockley. Dr Pockley chairs the Southern Otway Landcare Network and co-chairs the Otway Ranges Climate Action group. He told the echo that while fuel reduction was effective in other areas of Victoria, it would put the Otways at risk. “The wet …