A Victorian man has been given a one-year suspended prison term and ordered to pay $164,000 damages for setting off fireworks that started a blaze at a campsite near Albany on WA's south coast.
It's good that this guy has been prosecuted and will have to pay a considerable amount but, one would think that with a fire of the size he caused with the loss and damage inflicted , I think that he has been let off lightly .
I understand that he confessed early maybe that makes a difference .
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It's all very well making sure that the ground around a fire is clear of flammable material, but that makes no difference when there is a wind blowing, While in the Brigade I witnessed a fire that, because of the wind, this fire jumped a clear area of around 100m, then jumped clean over a house and set alight to bush on the other side, we chased the Head Fire, and we were traveling at over 20kph, just keeping up with it.
The only good fire in the Summer time, is a very dead one. !!!
K.J.
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KJ - hopefully all sane people will agree with you !
Only an idiot would light any fire in the dry season, let alone a camp fire.
Having stayed out for 6 months on a grain farm in WA's wheatbelt, every farmer had his own fire engine and drove it to each area he harvested dry crops from as a stone picked up in the grain harvester often caused sparks and within minutes, huge fires were racing across paddocks of tinder dry grain and stubble. During our time out there was usually a fire everyday in the surrounding farms. Farmers would call each other on UHF and all race to the fire as the country fire service volunteers, despite their best efforts) could not get to a fire before it had turned into a raging and out of control fire front
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Cheers Bruce
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