| ▲ | tdu01 3 hours ago | |
Australia gets very dry and pretty severe bush fires. We have the same unfortunate phenomena, 2019, 2023 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/hunter-valley-rfs-fir... There is a hero complex associated with this type of occupation, coupled with boredom perhaps. This is however not recurring theme, an anomaly in the statistics. Year on year we do have many brave, volunteer and professional firefighters rescue many properties and lives. | ||
| ▲ | ikt 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> Australia gets very dry and pretty severe bush fires. We have the same unfortunate phenomena, 2019 2019 was an American right wing/Facebook/Twitter job to downplay climate change and instead push the narrative that it was all done by arsonists https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-08/fires-misinformation-... He said the topic appeared to be attracting a "suspiciously high number of bot-like and troll-like accounts". --- Sad to see that American narrative about Australia still being spread | ||