Either do indoors safely or don’t do it today. Religious exemptions for fire use don’t exist when the risk to everyone else is so high.
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dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
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hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 month ago
BangCrash@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s Australia in Summer. There’s zero sympathy for religious use of flame. Bush Fire is deadly and if your religious candle causes a bush fire and kills people and destroys homes then the courts will hit you with everything.
There’s no reason you can’t wait a week until extreme fire danger has passed.
We’ve had too many deaths to start making excuses
dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
[deleted]BangCrash@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I guess the total fire ban is largely in reference to outside fires and things that cause sparks.
Cigarette butts, angle grinders, open fires, BBQs etc.
In national parks and also on private land in backyards etc.
There was a case just a couple years ago where someone was using an angle grinder fixing a lawnmower and the sparks causes his backyard to catch fire which ended up burning down hundreds or hectares and dozens of houses.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Do it indoors if at all. The fire ban applies to outdoor fires that might get out of control. Look up Black Saturday fires in Victoria and NSW. And Ash Wednesday. And Black Friday. These are just the ones with a lot of publicity. There are plenty of others. The bush burns in weather like this given the slightest excuse - deal with it. Do you want to be responsible for multiple deaths and a whole lotta destruction? If so, you’re on your own, as every occult practitioner and emergency services worker will be sending curses your way. I might even be one of them.
Rusty Raven works in the industry and knows what’s what.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
No, it’s basically just fires in the open outside. So no outdoor cooking fires, fires to get rid of garden waste etc. There are also restrictions on things like using grinders which can create sparks and start a fire.
It would also be possible in some circumstances to get a permit to be allowed to have a fire, so if you did have a religious or cultural ceremony requiring fire you may be able to get permission to do so (you would need to have a good reason and show you have taken precautions to ensure the fire can’t spread).
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
If you plan on running a gas or electric BBQ, it also either has to be fixed in place and made from non flammable materials, or commercially manufactured exclusively for the purposes of “food preparation”, and in either case you need either a hose or a bucket with at least 10 litres of water