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Update: Dozens More Arrested In Australia For Deliberately Setting Wildfires

Emily Zanotti
Update: Dozens More Arrested In Australia For Deliberately Setting Wildfires
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The government of New South Wales in Australia announced Tuesday that they’ve arrested two dozen more individuals for deliberately setting some of the fires now burning out of control, part of Australia’s ongoing “brushfire crisis.”

On Monday, the Daily Wire reported that the government of Queensland, in northeastern Australia, rounded up dozens of individuals who set at least 100 fires, some of which are still burning, even after consuming tens of thousands of acres, killing tens of thousands of wild animals, and leaving countless farms, homes, and businesses, decimated.

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