22 July

Says it all, hazard reduction burns are about protecting houses, not people. The amount of smoke they produce is incredibly harmful to people, wood smoke is many times more toxic than cigarette smoke, the process is insane. "During autumn, the RFS treated 93,116 hectares to protect 23,171 properties. By area, the tally was less than half the previous autumn's 191,684 hectares involving 27,867 properties." http://www.smh.com.au/environment/return-of-the-big-dry-points-to-active-and-early-fire-season-across-the-south-20170720-gxfmy8.html