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Mon Dec 23, 2019, 07:20 PM Dec 2019

Firebugs Behind Destructive Queensland Fires

https://climatechangedispatch.com/firebugs-behind-destructive-queensland-fires/

Almost 100 firebugs have deliberately started blazes across Queensland that have destroyed homes and consumed thousands of hectares of bushland.

Some 65 fires continue to burn across the state on Friday, jumping from 55 reported on Thursday, as the fire threat deepens heading into the weekend.

As firefighters remain on high alert, police revealed 103 of the destructive fires that have lashed Queensland since September were deliberately lit.


Figures obtained by AAP reveal 98 people – 31 adults and 67 juveniles – have been dealt with by Queensland police for deliberately setting fires.

A 16-year-old boy was found to have started a fire that razed 14 homes in central Queensland and dealt with under the state’s Youth Justice Act.
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I hope they arrest them all and hand out severe punishments.
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unfuckingbelievable.... dhill926 Dec 2019 #1
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