“Within a few months of Black Saturday, the trees resembled maypoles, wrapped in curling red and green ribbons.One flick of the finger and the spark wheel releases terror.” “… in the explosive conditions of the day before, all the arsonist would have needed was a lighter.In the Northern Teritory, hawks have been seen to carry smouldering sticks to reignite or extend a fire, ready to capture small animals as they flee. (Gases released during a fire act as propellant, sending fireballs kilometres away.) Throwing a cigarette out of the car window, is unlikely to cause a bushfire. Americans call blue gum trees “gasoline trees”. Things I didn’t know before:- Yallourn, a coal-mining town in the Latrobe Valley that I first learnt about in my school days now ceases to exist.
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