Australia Fires 2019 Arson
That means 31000 Australian bushfires are either arson or suspected arson every year.
Australia fires 2019 arson. The Australian newspaper first reported 180 alleged arsonists were arrested since the start of the bushfire season in September but subsequently updated the story to reflect that these statistics were in fact covering the entirety of 2019. AEST Australian Eastern. It suggested about 11 of bushfires reported in Queensland between September 10 2019 and January 8 2020 had been found to have been deliberately lit.
The figure included statistics from some states covering the entirety of 2019 rather than just the current bushfire season which began in. The Australia bushfires have nothing to do with climate change. According to Australias National Centre for Research in Bushfire and Arson 13 of bushfires every year are deliberate and 37 are suspicious.
This figure of 183 may have come from an article in the Australian newspaper referring to the number of cases of alleged arson since the start of 2019 and not limited to the recent widespread. Into the completely false claim that the fires were primarily caused by arson. There are on average 62000 fires in Australia every year.
Detective Paul Bertoncello. However it was reported in mid-January that the main cause of the December 2019 fires in Tasmania was arson with a Tasmanian Fire Service spokesperson quoted as saying Approximately 21000 of the 35000 hectares burnt is a result of deliberately lit fires. And Hannity among others spread the initial inaccurate statistic.
As at January 8 2020 there have been. Victoria Police had no arson figures available for this bushfire season but said in the 12 months to September 2019 a dozen people had been arrested for causing bushfires. The arsonists were responsible for about 50 of the bushfires.
Australias fire season usually runs from December to March but record-breaking heat in 2019 coupled with lingering drought and high winds brought the first fire. Posted Sat Saturday 21 Sep September 2019 at 1010pm. In the US state of California 95 of wildfires.