Ping!
4th or 5th post of this
The fires may have been set by Greenies.
The circus of climate change should pack up and go to another planet.
The US had the same problem many years ago. It is not really as much the fault of those who started the fires, because sooner or later they would have come, anyway; than it is those local leaders who discouraged the thinning and removal of excess foliage.
In the US, our problems began with trying to put out all forest fires, which led to many foot deep dead fall. So when the fire eventually happened, they were much worse than they should have been. Since that time, we have been using controlled burns to reduce the hazard.
Right now, the Australians should be thinking about zoning requirements for when they rebuild, as well as creating fire breaks, and other measures to reduce the threat in the future.