Foul-mouthed firebugs set their clothes alight near bushland during a total fire ban – before shouting at a man who confronted them
- Two girls were seen lighting a fire next to dry bushland in rural Western Australia
- A man pulled over to stop them and ask what they were doing but was sworn at
- The girls told him they ‘had to burn their clothes’ but did not explain why
- Oakford, a rural suburb south of Perth, had bushfires in its surrounds recently
- In NSW, 300 homes have been lost in a horror start to bushfire season
Two young women caught lighting their clothes on fire next to bushland in rural Western Australia let off a foul-mouthed tirade after they were told to put it out.
Video shows the girls lighting the school sports shirt on fire in Oakford, south of Perth, about 7pm on Tuesday, as local man Scott Langley pulls up next to them.
When he asks what they’re doing, the girls tell him: ‘We have to burn our clothes’.
Mr Langley, who told Daily Mail Australia he was conscious of the fact there is a total fire ban and the area is prone to bush fires, immediately gets out of his car to extinguish the blaze.
Two young girls have been slammed after setting fire to a school shirt next to bushland in a rural suburb south of Perth (pictured). When they were confronted to put it out, the girls launched a foul-mouthed tirade
‘What are you doing?’ he asks in disbelief.
‘We had to burn our clothes,’ one girl responds before trailing off and turning away.
‘No, don’t f***ing burn your clothes. Put it out – it’s a complete fire ban – don’t burn your clothes on the side of the road,’ Mr Langley says.
He asks the girls, who he believes are about 14 years old, where they live and tells them to go home, but is met with a foul-mouthed tirade.
‘It doesn’t f***ing matter where we live,’ the second girl responds.
‘You go f***ing home.’
Mr Langley said the area was surrounded by thick scrub, and it was still about 27 degrees at the time.
The girls refused to put out the fire, leaving concerned citizen Scott Langley to extinguish the blaze as the girls walked off
‘We have had some serious bush fires over the past few years in this area and have seen two or three smaller bush fires in the past week in surrounding areas,’ he said.
The Oakford local said he felt compelled to step in because of ‘unprecedented’ fires blazing throughout the country.
‘It’s not something I expected to be doing on a Tuesday night, but with the current situation… I couldn’t stand by,’ he said.
NSW RFS commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons told reporters on Wednesday an estimated 300 homes have been destroyed since the beginning of fire season.
On Tuesday alone, 50 homes were lost or damaged, and there were 2,000 calls to triple zero.
There are 17 fires still blazing across NSW, but none are at emergency levels. This could change depending on the weather throughout the day.