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Matilda

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2. A fair number have been started by arsonists.

Reply to Kali (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:49 PM

Dec 2019

Police have arrested a handful of people so far. (Mr Matilda thinks they should be sent into a fire area with a bucket of water and told to work their way out).

In many cases, the ground is so dry, especially with so many trees having been destroyed, they just begin as spot fires and grow from there.

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NSW bushfires spread across entire coastline as homes lost in Qld fires [View all] Matilda Dec 2019 OP

how are they starting? Kali Dec 2019 #1

A fair number have been started by arsonists. Matilda Dec 2019 #2

geebus! Kali Dec 2019 #3

One guy arrested here was a firefighter. Matilda Dec 2019 #4

Kick lunasun Dec 2019 #5

Three fires have combined into one "mega-fire" north of Sydney. Matilda Dec 2019 #6

The right wing is killing Australia, the US and Britain. Mickju Dec 2019 #7

What do they have in common? Matilda Dec 2019 #8