Foxy,

Another fire starter is spontaneous combustion, any buildup of leaves, grass and other rubbish against a rock or a log can heat up from decomposition, probably with help from the sun until it reaches a critical point then ignite.

I have heard of Malley Fowl nests going up when something has happened to the attendant birds and the temperature is not regulated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion

Loudmouth in the end brand new four lane motorways took over from my death highway [it name given after far too many deaths]
That plan had been for from one meter to three meter roadside native flowering trees
We saw in the end a Native wattle mad engineer see cicle pod wattles planted, they fall over, gas up, and make wonderful firestorms blocking highway traffic sometimes for days
Ise mise right again, here fires have been started by our much loved bush turkey nests
BUT in such dry and hot, even windy weather?
Our winter too has those westerly winds
We here and south of us think they come rushing in to remind us every August it is still winter,
Dry here fires under control but still burning
Idiot started one to the north to protect his drug crop'
Some farmers we are told evidence exists, started fires to put a barrier around their crop to
Firebugs arrested now number 7 in this state

http://www.facebook.com/CraigKellyMP/photos/a.117937578400885/1334833920044572/?type=3&eid=ARC1x8LwtdlruVqtRhjrRNk-nIGzpUa1KX-w7Dv1RZbf5URHVFJYXlirLUX905yl5W_jwIOXA-SpeH1L&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAMCiXeuMYa7-u2biIe-3ZHt6v7-m6ZzF88l0a-hMWDhEInbBd_s4rvY_EwdtBTxOJyeaYkCBbUbh2Qh-486rChJRT2B9D3p-WUz-7JCTgNCuMXLbyWHdeZxRLWJDkzY-Whv-MjANVteuuPw_Un31-F-T2GPgk36SwczFiA20SAfeUza1gjlB55RtDPHe0wxVg-ju1JYTFXZnI4atSTd81DEremZgi-zEs_sVgat1JTQ6T6e9HKGm36R9PU_c2VGmaxAUd83Chdv9sJK6gM2qd8sOMLWyundcCIZjxBiyCalNTL5u5hMEvAhBZq49b0dYn_LeDZA4TrH8a9pWDGafpTjs-u3dnGDXmLDfW1QyEtNlUwLKdF62Q&__tn__=EEHH-R

Venice in 1830 was in water the same as in 2019.

Dear Is Mise,

Thanks for that - something I did not know.

On the news yesterday - they were interviewing
a psychologist who explained why some people
go off and start fires.

It's all a bit much to take in.

Belly,

You'll appreciate this, on a well known part of the New England Highway, Black Mountain, a new section was built (and it's a vast improvement) but, to stabilize the fresh earthworks, millet or a similar grain was planted; the result was that the kangaroos soon got the word and came from miles around for the good feed.

The law of unintended consequences at work.

Belly, "much loved bush turkey nests". I loved them too, great eating, until they protected them.

They were a problem at the Happy Bay resort on Long Island in the Whitsundays. Hundreds of the things, & the young ones, looking for a place to build their nest mounds would move in to the resort, & start building against one of the guest cabins. Determined things, nothing would stop them, move every thing away with the loader, & they would drag it all back.

The only cure was to catch them & deport them to Lindeman island, who had none, & wanted them. Lindeman ended up with a moderate bachelor population of turkeys.

Sorry mate, you've got the reason for the westerly winds wrong. The authorities who run the Brisbane Ekka, [our Royal Easter show equivalent], offended the climate gods way back last century, so the gods send the westerlies to coincide with the start of the Ekka each year. Why is it that authorities are always so clumsy?

Sorry you have to suffer them too.