Hi fireman Rick, I didn't know I had a fellow Mayhemer that close only 300KM. Rick can tell you that we get many bush fires during the summer & depending on weather, late into the fall. They start for a verity of reasons,cigarette buts thrown from car windows, camp fires that get out of control, lightning & broken bottles and the sun shining through glass magnifying the sun to name a few, and then we have the Rabble doing it deliberate for "fun" This reminds me of the Yellowstone fires of 1988, they had 40,000 fire fighters & failed to put it out, the weather did. It was so hot ( I was there ) that it burned 3 metres into the soil & has yet to recover in some places . Mick B.