Spontaneous combustion ?

Its just over 20 years since the last fire that nearly wiped the Otways out . the wind change came early and saved us - a mild breeze

Recently several locals ( Story in the Colac Herald near Lake Colac  Ref Malcolm Gardiner )

finally got the ear of Federal Ministers over the unique platypus streams and threats to them near Gellibrand.   

The Kawarren and Barongarook creeks, like Lake Eyre, tap water resources that are huge but hidden.  Even though there is a lot of water down below the surface, just one small deep tapping by a bore, like those put in by Barwon Water in our Region, can and has stopped eon aged perennial flows at the edges of  those unique habitats over a very wide area: one of the reasons so many animals died when they did this a few years ago . This action even dried out the peat beds and nearly burnt the Otways out as a consequence . Have you heard about spontaneous combustion  ?

we were sitting on the smoking site for days , Then one windy November day it took off .