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.
Two more teens, 14 and 15, were charged with endangering property by fire over a blaze that destroyed two homes and forced hundreds to flee.
More than 120 fires are still being investigated and more people could be charged.
The firebug revelations come as fire crews continue to face challenging conditions as a strong upper ridge sweeping across the southeast combines with fresh east northeasterly winds on Friday.
The volatile conditions have prompted the weather bureau to reissue a severe fire warning for the Darling Downs and Granite Belt, Central Highlands and Coalfields, and the eastern parts of the Warrego and Maranoa districts on Friday.
Areas of localized severe fire danger are also in place for the eastern parts of the Central West district.
Residents in Cainbable, west of the Gold Coast, have been told to prepare to leave, as a bushfire in the Lamington National Park continues to threaten properties.
Firefighters continue to keep watch on the dangerous fire burning on multiple fronts at Lowmead near Gladstone, where authorities now confirm three homes were lost earlier in the week.
The eastern side of the fire is burning in the vicinity of Cross Road, Hills Road, Whytallabah Road, and Kirkpatrick Road.
Firefighters will continue to work with heavy machinery and waterbombing aircraft to strengthen containment lines.
Sunshine Coast residents also remain on alert after being forced to evacuate a volatile bushfire on Wednesday.
Forty-three homes have been destroyed in Queensland since August 1 with fires blackening more than 240,000 hectares of land.
Conditions are forecast to improve along the Queensland coast into next week but residents across the state should remain on alert about the several fire and heat warnings, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
“It is vital not to become complacent when hearing these continued warnings,’ forecaster Rosa Hoff told media on Friday
“The danger is as real as it was the first day we experienced it in Queensland.”
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And hopefuly the youths will be dealt with serverly instead of just a slap on the wrist like Manual Labor and screw those not-wits from Amnesty International and the various liberal bleeding Hearts
They were made into arsonists by climate change! Everybody knows that when global temperatures increase by 0.6 C in a century, the number of arsonists rises exponentially! When will our politicians finally do something about that and lead us back into the stone age?
Probably climatistas hoping to provoke a proletarian revolt and demand for dictatorial solutions. This is essentially the same as “adjusting” temperature records to prove AGW.
Long before congress person Rashida Talibe turned motherf***er into a political epithet, there was better description for the unhinged. Barn burner. Firebug isn’t strong enough. When arson becomes a political weapon, we’re in big trouble.
Arson should be a criminal code offence; probably equivalent in charge and punishment to 2nd-degree murder. But as far as having anything to do with AGW; well, that’s just plain wrong. That claim is little more than the tactics of NGO’s and researchers looking-for-grants and corporate sponsors.
If Australia had been managing its forests as done historically by Aboriginals (i.e. annual bushland burns) these fires would not be. Same with rest of the world. aboriginal-fire-management-part-of-the-solution-to-destructive-bushfires-55032
Look at the global forest fire map:
https://fires.globalforestwatch.org/home/
From Canada here, and both here and across the border in the USA, no one bothers to pay attention to how the natives managed wildfire.
The arson in Australia is terrorism of the first degree!
Like all the suggested fixes for forest management, its not that simple, its a complete myth that Australian bush needs burning every year. We have hugely varied ecosystems, with some requiring fire management every 3-5years, some 5-10yrs, some 10-20yrs and some over 100yrs, there is no one-size fits all available.
Also to consider is that Australia was divided into over 500 indigenous tribes, who could all potentially have different land management techniques and burning practices. Since so few indigenous are left and many tribes have either been decimated or lost the link to tradition through forced seperation, we actually dont know how a lot of Australia was managed by them.
Another extremely important consideration, since European settlement in 1788 the Australian landscape has been so heavily modified that it no longer resembles the landscape the indigenous managed, so many of the practices can no longer be applied to the regions the same way. For example, I grew up in an area which is now plantation timber, open grazing and woodlands, with very small pockets of rainforest. However about 150years ago it was all part of the big scrub rainforest (https://www.bigscrubrainforest.org/about-the-big-scrub/), a 75,000ha patch of land which was covered in rainforest, which has NO fire requirement. There is only 1% of this rainforest left. The rest has been cleared and logged, so the indigenous had no fire management here. Yet now it burns… so how do we apply indigenous principals here?
Forget everything that you’ve been “taught” about the physics of climate change by climatologists who are not physicists. Learn about the whole new paradigm in our understanding of atmospheric physics – science that is supported by the laws of physics and evidence throughout the Solar System. Spend eight minutes watching this and it will blow your mind:
“Scientist”, you’ll get no argument here about the theory of global warming: << that earth emitted, black body, longwave radiation is absorbed (captured) by the unnatural over-abundance of (anthropogenic) atmospheric CO2 )and some other so-called GHG’s) and reemitted back towards the earth, causing an accumulation of heat faster than natural cooling can/did occur, when CO2 was at a historically natural atmospheric abundance (pre-industrial era)>>. That theory is just that; a theory, and not actually a fact of the physics. The physics has never been demonstrated in a lab.
But that YouTube video you posted has terrible audio. Show us some science rather than another person ranting? Post the citations behind your friend’s explanation.
“Scientist”, here is an example of one paper from Mr Cotton (I am racing it today):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318008633_Planetary_Core_and_Surface_Temperatures
My engineering lead once said, “One good experiment is worth a thousand expert opinions.” As Private Citizen pointed out, “That theory is just that; a theory, and not actually a fact.” Here the theory would be the same as an expert opinion. We do a good experiment, the correlation, or better stated, lack of correlation, of CO2 levels with the Earth’s temperature history.
I should add that I find the arson in Australia to be very disturbing. There have been years in Oregon where almost all of the wild fires were started by lightning.
We’re all entitled to know the national origin, ethnicity and
religious affiliation of the firebugs.
Ditto the firebugs of California and
Notre Dame de Paris.
The MSM has no right to hide this information.