Consider it mass murder!

How could anyone in their right mind think that setting the life and dreams of others on fire can be placed in a sentence containing the words fun or even right? I have never experienced seeing everything I have worked hard for turned to dust but I think I know what I am saying when I claim that it is horrible beyond words! These arsonists think they could juts do that to people and escape justice each and every time. It doesn't matter if no one was injured the fact that they consider ruining other people's lives as though it were a sport, makes it all the more appalling! I share in your prayer that the victims of these people find solace in the fact that justice will soon catch up with these fiends and that they would pay dearly for the suffrerings they have caused others.

We hear that the fire in Melbourne is spreading so fast that a little town is smashed to gound. Firemen are struggling their best efforts, but little effect. The nation is called to help, and god blesses, hope a shower will come soon. It is said the fire was due to both natural and human offences. How stupid! It should be a big lesson for everybody!

:( ... I did not realise they were deliberatley lit someone said it was lightning strikes, and drought and heat causing this.. I am doing rain prayers on and off for Australia but I am not familiar with the land, and cultural, and the types of Local Spirits and Gods or Goddess that maybe able to help out weather wise... Those fires are bad.. I think alot of these are deliberatley lit.. One way I can tell. Is if you look at natures natural cycles... If a the Fire is in the South then the Flood is In the North, Wind storms in the East, and earth movements in mudslides, or quakes in the other. On my Shamanic Path I have observed... Fire and Water is always oposite of eachother and Water has Earth on one side and wind on the other... And I see it from overhead like a Giant X connecting all for of these elements as it slowly spirals and rotates.... I also know usually in natures nature cycle. Floods usually follow droughts... Mudslides follow floods, and Wind can come before the droughts or after the floods... Now to Pray and Ask the Floods to dance where the fire spirits are, and ask them to please go to rest, and not to destroy or clean anymore of the area. Usually that is the purpose, cleansing, reknewel, and growth,,,, That is from my unique perspective... I have never lost everything in a fire but I remember one time our shed caught fire from a tiny spark out of a burning barrel that was barely embers....I was standing at the window watching this... the hay in the shed is what went up really fast and it was windy... Took only minutes before the entire shed was on fire... and we all had to go down the road to my grandpas the fire was so big and bright we all thought for sure it ate the house too.... but it caught three big oak trees... fire department came in 10 minutes but even then it was to late... that shed was burned to the ground... I was 6 years old at that time so it was terrifying... I did not worry about the house as much.. as I did the woods.. only reason I worried about the house is my toy trains were there. :) ... Yes, it is sad arsonists find it fun they know its not acceptable.... - DNatureofDTrain

I never knew these fires were deliberate until I read the headlines on My Yahoo. I believe there was a similar incident that some of the fires in California where deliberately set that year or so ago when there were a lot of fires. I have never been in this situation and when I first read it, I thought that you were and I was about to offer you sympathy for your loss. But still the same, I do hope the police there catch those pyromaniacs and charge them with murder. It was not just careless hunters or campers was it? I mean this is getting to be dangerous. I mean why would some people actually set fires that would kill people? Do they think that they cannot be caught? This is horrible.

oh my gosh it was lit on purpose? how cruel or how stupid... pls respond to this. i have a friend that lives there, in adelaide..is that near there? or is it also affecetd? ive sent her a msg and she is not replying pls message me. PLEASE...i am praying for everyone back there...especially my best friend..pls reply

Yeah, terrible. Although it's easy to say, lock em up, their mass murderers this could be a prank, game, whatever - gone wrong. And if people are going to treat them this way of course they will go into hiding, if the police and the media call them "arsonists", they may come forward as they feel less guilty. I would hate to be in the family of one of the killed, but i would hate it even more to be in the family of the killer. That's all.

This story has really bothered me when I watch it on the news. I have never been to Australia, but online I have quite a few friends from there and this is just so sad. I hope that who ever did this has to pay for what they did.

i saw it on the news a few minutes ago and posted a question myself, my heart goes out to these people who have lost their family, friends, children etc. It is absolutely terrible that people would deliberately do this, it is just unacceptable in my opinion.

It is very sickening that the pyros have no care or respect for other people and their belongings. These people have done nothing to deserve being killed,injured, or burned out of their homes.