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But every year people start fires. Just Google "<year> bushfire firebug arrested"

This is just grabbing the first news story from each one:

2014: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-21/youths-arrested-for-l...

2015: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/australia/three-teenage-fir...

2016: https://www.naracoorteherald.com.au/story/4238341/cfa-firebu...

2017: https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/4828025/updated-acc...

2018: https://www.pressreader.com/australia/shepparton-news/201802...

Some of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire were deliberately lit too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires#Arson

Arson isn't new. The difference now is the scale of the fires and how hard they have been to fight because of that scale.



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