Deer in the Headlights

[Baggers]

I think that may be somewhat of an underestimation Baggers.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/...6ed1acf53f

Some cases could be called accidental/careless but the "deliberate" category is significant.

It's a curly one, Fluffy One... depends on which media outlet you frequent sometimes as to the news you get. I tend not to give much credence to News Ltd stories as there is a definite bias with their interpretation of stories. The info I read said that though real and a deep concern -- deliberate fires -- what really terrified firies was 'dry' storms etc.

Anyway and either way, I guess the real issue is how fires can now develop from what we're used to or have known for more than a century, to what has recently been described by firies as types of fires they've not seen before and being increasingly difficult to combat, and starting earlier in the 'fire season', and lasting longer.