Fire Destroys Two Conference Centers; IACC Seeks to Help

Raging bush fires in Australia last Saturday completely destroyed two conference centers, The Cumberland Marylands and the Marylands Country House, located in the Yarra Valley northeast of Melbourne. No one in the centers was injured, but the staffs of both of these conference centers, which are members of the International Association of Conference Centers, lost everything—their homes, their jobs, their community—as the fire razed 90 percent of the town of Marysville.