Burleigh Hill fire suspected vandalism & koala habitat Impact

"Police are looking for 3 teenagers"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well loose. It's in the newsroom because this is pretty
big news. So what is the story?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
So, yeah, so police are treating it as suspicious. We've
got reports that they're looking for three teenagers, and they
are aware of a video that has been circulating on
social media. At the moment, we don't know when that
video was actually recorded, obviously, don't even know that it
was definitely on Burly Hill, but it does show what

(00:26):
looks like a boy holding a tree branch on fire
and he's.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Kind of swinging around. I thought it was sing around,
like Burley Hill has a lot of that stuff that
goes on when the bomb goes are there just waving
it around? But that may be an incident from two
years ago exactly.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
We don't know one hundred percent yet, but police are
aware of it. They're looking into it and obviously trying
to find the.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Call encouraging people to come forward.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Absolutely. Now, a lot of the chat's been people worried
about the koala habitat there and wildlife. But some of
the reports I'm reading saying that it was really just
the grass around the bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, it was a hecta, a whole hecta of vegetation,
but the environmental crews and whatnot will head out today
to kind of assess the damage on the wildlife, on
all the snakes and the koalas and all of that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, it's interesting that they're trying to maybe step away
from the video of the kid doing the rounds, But
at the same time, how else could a flyer start there?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, I mean fire is completely banned. It's protected land.
There's no bush there's no campfires or anything allowed. So yeah,
it obviously has been treated as suspicious.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
So right, well, we thought we got to Tara's account
there of what it was like because you live near there.
But if anyone else wants to call through, were you closer?
Were you did you actually go for a wander and
go and see the fieries trying to put it out?
Apparently it came to a natural burn out at the
end around them. Yes, didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Fieres actually didn't use any extinguishing tools. They were just
monitoring it. I don't know if anyone knows why any
fieries no why. I'm assuming maybe it would be bad
for the environment, maybe like the wildlife again, so they
just monitored it and itself burned. For about two hours.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Right, well, you're our eyes and ears Gold Coast to
give us a

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Call double five seven one one oh two nine Burly Hill,
did you see it last night?