Well I know of two fires kids started one lead to deaths
Face it those kids should not walk away free
Maybe not their parents either
But remember it has been too dry to burn off in winter
Too firefighters who tried started horrific fires in mid winter they had no control over stay safe fellas

Mr o is talking arts department bull dust as usual. He tells us chopping down trees to grow crops destroyed the fertilization of the soil. We should have left the trees. He does not bother to tell us how you grow crops in a forest of trees, but what would you expect.

Belly I have been told by one of our local bush fire brigade fighting the Beachmont fire that it is huge thickets of dead lantana that is fueling the national parks fires into the crowns around here.

People want to live surrounded by trees but when the trees start burning they blame everything & everyone but themselves.
Keep your house & property clear of natural fuel & the damage will be much less. Yes, the early "experts" never thought that clearing so much Bush would degrade the soil as much as it has but now "we" know better, we just need to find a way to get the message to be accepted by the experts. As soon as common sense is part of the curriculum this could become reality !

Hasbeen different climate down here but yes lantana is a problem here too
After all it first grew in this country in Lake Inis Lady bought it here as a flower]
DRY WINTERS stopped fires being started
After far too many turned in to mid winter firestorms
Lake I burns still by the way
To the north children set fire that nearly took their mission homes west of that Bora Ridge same thing, that fire is now out of control
Firebugs murder

re lantana. Sensitive weed is even worse & EPA won't even look at it !