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08 Jan 2020
Many people arrested for fire-related offenses in Australia are not responsible for the major bushfires, including cases involving dementia, theft distractions, or accidental sparks.

It's at very least a dreadful oversimplification. Some of these people who are arrested and starting fires, they might be completely unrelated to the bushfires. For instance, two separate arsons took place on January 4th and 5th in Elizabeth North, one on each side of a duplex. These were just completely old-fashioned arson. One on either side of a duplex? One day it was one side, the next day it was the other. Okay, so was it two angry neighbors? I don't know. I don't know. They did arrest a guy who was holed up on a roof, though, in that neighborhood. And they have a pretty good sense that it was him. But that has nothing to do with the larger fires. That's just someone setting a building on fire. At least one of these people who was arrested was a 36-year-old man who set a fire in Johnsonville, which was contained. So that's not really related to the larger situation. Two teens were arrested for arson on January 5th because they were trying to break into a shed that they were trying to rob, which has nothing to do with the bushfires. There was another case in Melbourne of a guy who was arrested for arson, but that was part of a theft. He was trying to maybe cause a distraction in order to, you know, and that has nothing to do with this.