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wood fires at Arapiles 22-May-2014 At 10:11:39 AM kieranl

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On 22/05/2014 Climboholic wrote:
>On 21/05/2014 kieranl wrote:
>>It's illegal to leave a camp-fire unattended, whether it's in a proper
>>fireplace or not.
>
>Show me a link to this law and I'll stop leaving fires unattended like
>I have without incident on a weekly basis for the last 30 years.
>
Can't show you the specific regulation but this from the DEPI website for times that are not under explicit fire restrictions :

"In a state forest, national park or on protected public land the person in charge of a campfire or barbeque must not be outside the line of sight of it, or be more than 50 metres away from it"

Yes, people shouldn't light fires when it's windy but people have monstrously poor judgement, as you show by maintaining that it's safe to leave a fire unattended when you think it's safe. That mindset bothers me. I'd prefer that people don't light campfires at all but if you're going to do it you could at least do it properly and not pick and choose which bits of the rules to follow.