goanna wrote:insect_eater wrote:Hi All,
I've been watching the Currowan fire creep north towards The Castle for the last couple of weeks. It was dramatically helped a week ago by an arsonist driving about 30km north from the northern edge to the Clyde River, lighting up both sides of the road along the way.
Do you have a source that it was arson? I took the fires along the road to be an attempted backburn. The whole area has been closed to the public for quite a while.
I live & work around the Batemans Bay area, and a little birdy (who's nest is in the local RFS) told me that it weren't no backburn up in that Yadboro area & there weren't no lightning strikes either.
And yes these areas are closed atm. But, that does not always stop some people and there are plenty of tracks around there too you know.
Can't see how this fire won't link up with the one that started at Tianjara yesterday which was also very suspicious, apparently. BTW another fire that started out the back of Maloney's Beach the other week was also 'suspicious'. Apparently an unidentified person on a bike was seen exiting the track from where smoke was seen shortly after. Unfortunately l guess many fires remain suspicious unless someone is caught.
imo convicted arsonists (including irresponsible power company execs) should be burnt alive as punishment! OUCH