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Police in Australia are accusing 24 people of deliberately setting bushfires
CNN ^ | Updated 5:03 AM ET, Wed January 8, | By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN

Posted on 01/08/2020 6:02:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise

Police have charged at least 24 people for intentionally starting bushfires in the state of New South Wales, according to a statement the New South Wales Police released Monday.

NSW Police have taken legal action against 183 people, 40 of whom are juveniles, for fire-related offenses since November 8, the statement said. The legal actions range from cautions to criminal charges.

Out of those 183 people, 53 have received cautions or criminal charges for failing to comply with a total fire ban and 47 are accused of discarding a lit cigarette or match on land, according to the police statement...

...The blazes have been burning across Australia for months, scorching homes and destroying entire towns. Nearly 18 million acres of land have been burned -- most of it bushland, forests and national parks, which are home to the country's native wildlife. Nearly half a billion animals have been affected by the fires in NSW alone and millions of them are potentially dead, according to ecologists at the University of Sydney...

...In November, the NSW Rural Fire Service arrested a 19-year-old volunteer member on suspicion of arson, charging him with seven counts of deliberately setting fires over a six-week period.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arson; australia; cnnprobablyfalse; firebugs; forestfires; globalwarmingscare; wildfires

1 posted on 01/08/2020 6:02:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise

How many named Mohammed?


2 posted on 01/08/2020 6:04:11 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: a fool in paradise

Link to the final case/article about a “volunteer” firefighter accused of setting 7 fires last year.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/27/australia/australia-fires-fireman-arson-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

Australian bushfires. A political showdown stuns in Venezuela.

A volunteer firefighter has been charged after allegedly starting fires in Australia
CNN Digital Expansion 2017. James Griffiths
By James Griffiths, CNN

Updated 3:02 AM ET, Wed November 27, 2019


3 posted on 01/08/2020 6:04:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: tired&retired

Snopes and the Guardian are trying to downplay the significance.

It’s global warming don’t you know?


4 posted on 01/08/2020 6:05:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: a fool in paradise

Charge them all with Climate Change Denier Denial!


5 posted on 01/08/2020 6:07:11 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: a fool in paradise

“... mainly caused by drought and extreme heat,... “ I’ve never seen a tumbleweed burst into flames on its own


6 posted on 01/08/2020 6:07:50 AM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: eccentric

California has had its own fires that were caused by illegal immigrant camps and by crooked forestry rangers.


7 posted on 01/08/2020 6:09:36 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: tired&retired

name names, please..


8 posted on 01/08/2020 6:11:25 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: tired&retired

Possibly Aboriginals, too, in white man bad mode.


9 posted on 01/08/2020 6:18:55 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: a fool in paradise

Anyone that is found to intentionally start a wildfire for criminal porpouses should face capital punishment.


10 posted on 01/08/2020 6:20:48 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: a fool in paradise

“Snopes and the Guardian are trying to downplay the significance.”

A sure sign that muzzies are involved. Withhold the names until they choke on it.


11 posted on 01/08/2020 6:21:36 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970

Here is an official source:

Police take legal action against more than 180 people so far during 2019/2020 bushfire season
New South Wales Police Force ^ | Monday, 06 January 2020 02:03:36 PM | no byline
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3806483/posts

“Of note: 24 people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires”


12 posted on 01/08/2020 6:24:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: a fool in paradise

Leftists everywhere scream, “The climate crisis causes arson!”


13 posted on 01/08/2020 6:26:50 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: tired&retired
How many named Mohammed?

An inexpensive way to disrupt a country's economy.

14 posted on 01/08/2020 6:27:50 AM PST by Salvey
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To: a fool in paradise
CLIMAGEDDON drove them to it!?🌋
15 posted on 01/08/2020 6:33:50 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Nothing to see here.


16 posted on 01/08/2020 6:51:54 AM PST by YourAdHere (I Just Took a Huge Obama)
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To: chris37

Yeah, Greta ain’t gonna like this.


17 posted on 01/08/2020 7:20:02 AM PST by skimbell
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To: a fool in paradise

rope

eucalyptus tree


18 posted on 01/08/2020 7:54:05 AM PST by bgill
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Partisan Media Shills update. CNN is Clinton-Non-News.

19 posted on 01/08/2020 7:59:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: bgill

no, lock them in a small cage in a parking lot with a can of gasoline and a box of matches to play with


20 posted on 01/08/2020 8:26:21 AM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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