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>One of the arsonists caught was a firefighter, who's presumably plenty educated on the risks of starting a fire. It is my personal belief that this person int
by aphextim 7y ago
>One of the arsonists caught was a firefighter, who's presumably plenty educated on the risks of starting a fire.
It is my personal belief that this person intended to start the fire and managed to become a firefighter in order to try to not get caught and wasn't a firefighter for 10 years and all of a sudden decided to go rogue.
I could very well be wrong, and I do not disagree with you, society will always have crazy/evil people who want to do harm for whatever reasons and education will do nothing for those people. However I think a lot of the 'arson' wasn't intentional but was people camping, smoking or doing other things which education can help prevent.
- ceejayoz 7y ago> However I think a lot of the 'arson' wasn't intentional but was people camping, smoking or doing other things which education can help prevent. Yes, most of the 180 arrests number that's going around are from these sorts of scenarios instead of arson. That said, Australians get plenty of education already on the dangers of fire. Fire bans and high risk days are very much publicized. My grandparents nearly lost a house to Hobart's fires in 1967. It just takes one person out of Australia's 20M to dispose improperly of a cigarette, and there are plenty of natural ignition sources to add onto that. Just look at an Aussie fire sign, which you'll see all over: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-13/bushfire-danger-rating-system-trialled-summer/9203446 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-13/bushfire-danger-ratin... "Low/Moderate, High, Very High, Severe, Extreme, and Catastrophic"