The City of Greater Geelong urged the state government to take responsibility for delays in delivering a promised fire station in Armstrong Creek, months before a fatal house fire.
Days before the fatal fire, the government had blamed council delays for holding up the project.
Geelong's mayor says the project must be built as a priority, as "lives are at risk as long as it's not built".
The Geelong council wrote to the state government just months before a fatal Armstrong Creek house fire, urging it to take greater responsibility for delays in delivering a promised fire station for the major growth area.
On Saturday, an Armstrong Creek house fire killed a 65-year-old man, eight years after the state government pledged to build a new fire station in the area as "an absolute priority" following a fatal house fire in the suburb in 2017.
The latest death came just days after the ABC questioned the state government about the failure to deliver the promised fire station.
An unattributed response from the government last week claimed progress on the development of the station was "facing delays due to council and service authorities approval" at the government's preferred Boundary Rd site.
But a letter seen by the ABC shows City of Greater Geelong CEO Ali Wastie wrote to the emergency services minister…
