On January 1st, the day before the fires began, the Bureau of Meteorology announced a fire warning along with a total fire ban, to the majority of South Australia (Figure 1). This was due to the extreme temperatures that they had predicted to come within the following days. The day after the announcement, Adelaide reached 44'C. The high temperatures and dry weather helped the fires start and spread rapidly as high temperatures tend to lower the moisture in plants, grass. This leaves them dry and flammable. There are many theories as to how the bushfires started, but one of the first theories was that the source of the bushfires came from a backyard incinerator from a resident in Sampson Flat. Although investigators were quite confident that
