Lt Gen Bilton said defence would be further investigating the cause of the fire but had ceased use of that type of landing light in the meantime.
The emergency-level fire was heading east and northeast towards Canberra and growing at a rate of 400 hectares per hour. Earlier, Caloola Farm manager Ralph Hurst-Meyers was desperately trying to convince three men still on the farm near the blaze to leave as they planned to defend the property. He said firefighters had told him the farm would become a trap if the fire reached there and said it was too dangerous to defend it.
The army’s ARH? Would this be the first bushfire started by a Tiger?
No it has to be climate change
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