The Rural Fire Service has been told to "stay out" of a Holbrook man's property in the case of another bushfire.
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Simon Trinca wrote a letter to fire command at Albury after the summer bushfires to thank firefighters for their work in controlling the fire, but criticise what he called "dreadful" communication.
That letter was included in his submission to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements and published this week.
"My property was used as a defensive battleground for the district, but I wasn't consulted, even though I was on site every day," Mr Trinca said.
"Damaging and unnecessary firebreaks were graded without consultation in stupid locations. Be nice if I was compensated for the unnecessary damage done by ill-informed, gung-ho fire captains who have no idea how to combat fire like this."
According to the letter, the RFS did not inform Mr Trinca about machinery being used on his property.
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He said it was up to him to search for the incident controller to find information about the firebreaks.
"These seemed to be more about protecting neighbour's properties than ours or the district," he said.
"Their benefit, my cost.
"That's great - trash our place, leave the loss of pasture and weeds to us, take our water without compensation or replacement."
At his initiative, a dozer was used to put in a firebreak where he wanted at the property, but he said he will have to pay nearly $10,000 for its use because it was not registered with the RFS.
"In any future fires, I do not want, or legally approve, of any involvement of plant and equipment on my property unless there is an active fireground on my property. In future, there is to be no defensive work done on Upper Wantagong without my express, prior, written approval," Mr Trinca said.
"Otherwise stay out of our property."
His only praise was reserved for the local fire crews.
"I would like to sincerely thank all the brigade crews who gave so much time and effort fighting and controlling the fire on and around our property," he said. "They were terrific and made some vital saves on several occasions when the fire spotted out into paddocks or threatened to do so."
A RFS spokesman said with a number of inquiries under way after the summer fires, including the Royal Commission, it would be inappropriate to make comment on them.
"The NSW RFS awaits the findings and will consider preliminary recommendations made and look at how they could be implemented to improve the emergency response and operation of the service," he said.
