"What's so amazing? It's part of the environmental life cycle.
Build in the bush and expect this to happen.
Pay your money and take your chances."
The trouble is we all have to pay higher insurance premiums for those who choose to live in unsafe areas. On hot days eucalyptus oil from the trees becomes an explosive vapour and once a fire gets into tree tops it can run at up to 100kph even if control burning has taken place to reduce fuel loads on the ground. Isolated trees up to one kilometer from the fire front have been known to explode in flames. Native trees are totally unsuitable for residential areas, they are just like having drums of petrol sitting among houses, besides the fire danger they drop limbs without warning and many people have been killed or injured.
