Victorian bushfires

[the green man]

Police closing in on suspects

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25033574-421,00.html

Also read somewhere that a man was arrested for using a power tool (a grinder possibly) which they believed started a fire

[under the bar]

Good point, under the bar, something like the Tornado shelters founder in the US might help. Mind you a fire might raise issues, it would be bloody hot in one and there could be oxygen depletion. 

If there you are 6-8 ft under the ground with a decent fire resistent door the heat would not penetrate the soil around it to any great degree.   A single remote vent to the outside should also provide enough air to survive.

[the green man]

If there you are 6-8 ft under the ground with a decent fire resistent door the heat would not penetrate the soil around it to any great degree.   A single remote vent to the outside should also provide enough air to survive.

Where would this vent be? Bearing in mind that there's a raging inferno eating up any oxygen above you. I don't think it'd be possible to build a fire shelter.

[muppet]

Police closing in on suspects

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25033574-421,00.html

Also read somewhere that a man was arrested for using a power tool (a grinder possibly) which they believed started a fire

I'd say the fires were most likely started by accident. Still unforgivable in a country so prone to them and with so many warnings.

Anyone who maliciously started one should be burned at the stake themselves, slowly.

Some amazing people appearing on TV, dignified, restrained, but devastated.

[the green man]

[Aerlik]

Great pic. 

[stpauls]

Brlliant picture!! was in Oz in October passed, and it is sad to see that most of that beautiful country is being ravished by fire, and that so many peoples lives are being ruined due to the destruction caused!!