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Australian bushfires
Darkbluerabbit:
Besides speculation that arson may have occurred, do they have any idea what motives might be involved? Could it be a crazy extremist political stunt of some kind, or just wanton destruction?
Either way, it's pretty fucked up.
onewheelwizzard:
Holy shit, those pictures.
Hat:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 09 Feb 2009, 22:26 ---I've heard it tossed around that these fires can actually be beneficial, in a cleansing way--clearing out dead trees, brush, etc. Any basis to that?
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Well yes, you really want a bit of a bushfire every 3-4 years in order to make way for the growth of new trees, but usually backburnings are conducted in controlled circumstances to allow this so that we don't have to have roaring carnage like this. Unfortunately it happens anyway.
--- Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 09 Feb 2009, 22:40 ---Besides speculation that arson may have occurred, do they have any idea what motives might be involved? Could it be a crazy extremist political stunt of some kind, or just wanton destruction?
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It is kind of weird to me that you would even think that it would be an extremist political stunt although I suppose a good way to do so would be to disguise it under something like a bushfire that would happen anyway.
Most of the cases of deliberate bushfires I've heard about are actually volunteer firefighters who are bored and want to be seen as heros so they start a few fires to drum up work for themselves because they were too unfit to be allowed in the real fire department or something.
Inlander:
Re: arsonists -
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2487091.htm
Jace:
--- Quote from: Hat on 09 Feb 2009, 22:57 ---Most of the cases of deliberate bushfires I've heard about are actually volunteer firefighters who are bored and want to be seen as heros so they start a few fires to drum up work for themselves because they were too unfit to be allowed in the real fire department or something.
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This was the case of one of the most terrible forest fires in Southwest history. It was a volunteer who was paid per the work, so he started a fire near where he lived so that they could put it out and get paid by the county. Well, it quickly got out of control and linked up with one of the other fires in the same area.
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