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Australia: Smartphone on the car battery: Campers trigger bush fires

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Smartphone on the car battery: campers cause a bush fire

A bushfire has been raging between the towns of Waroona and Pinjarra on Australia’s west coast since Saturday. photo

© Erik Swaby/DEPARTMENT OF FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES WA/AAP/dpa

A careless act causes a massive bush fire in Western Australia. Residential buildings also fall victim to the flames.

With a big one Bush fire south of the Australian metropolis of Perth has caused at least three residential buildings and five smaller buildings to fall victim to the flames. The fire, which has been raging between the towns of Waroona and Pinjarra on the west coast since Saturday, has already burned more than 3,000 hectares of land, Australian broadcaster ABC reported, citing emergency services.

The fire was apparently accidentally started by a group of campers who were said to have tried to charge a smartphone with a car battery.

“The fact that there were no fatalities is evidence of the hard work of our firefighters and the strategic use of the firefighting aircraft,” said fire department spokesman Darren Klemm. More than 200 emergency services fought the flames for days on the ground and from the air. These have now been contained, but are still not completely under control, it was said.