Two men have appeared in court on charges related to a grassfire that broke out in the northern suburbs of Adelaide over the weekend.
The 31-year-olds Andrew Wayne and Terrence Hull were incarcerated over the weekend after being charged with carelessly starting the fire that occurred on Saturday.
Three people were hospitalized, residences were threatened, and some property was burned in the Penfield grassfire that broke out during a total fire ban.
On a property on Womma Road, a spark from an angle grinder is thought to have ignited the fire.
Waye and Hull were both charged by a magistrate today with reckless and gross carelessness for failing to heed fire warnings.
No one will be tolerated if they are accused of intentionally or unintentionally igniting bushfires, according to Police Commissioner Grant Stevens.
One consequence could be that they are taken to court instead of being given bail by the police after their arrest.
“People who commit offences, whether it be intentionally or recklessly, particularly with certain bushfire offences, they are prescribed offences, which means people will not be eligible for bail unless they can show there are exceptional circumstances,” said Stevens.
