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Thursday, 16 January 2020

Firebug is spotted 'setting alight vegetation in the dark' on bushfire-ravaged Kangaroo Island – after blazes destroyed 65 homes and killed two

[Daily Mail Australia]: A search is underway for a person who could have deliberately set fire to some unburnt vegetation on South Australia's bushfire-ravaged Kangaroo Island.

Just before 5am on Thursday, emergency services personnel spotted a new fire within an already burnt pine plantation along Pioneer Bend Road.

'Of concern is that they believed they saw a person adjacent to the fire and that person could have been deliberately setting fire to some unburnt vegetation,' police said in a statement.

A police officer also saw a torchlight in the same area as the person was seen.

A comprehensive search was undertaken, but the person was not found.

The Country Fire Service is continuing to monitor flare ups from the Kangaroo Island blaze, which could burn for another two weeks...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...