About 3pm, Police and Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) were advised of a bushfire within the Mily Nature Reservice located adjacent to the Kwinana Freeway. Strong winds enabled the fire to jump across the freeway and start a second fire in bushland at the Royal Perth Golf Course.
The cause of the fire is being treated as suspicious and Arson Squad officers are urging anyone with any information relating to this fire to contact Crime Stoppers online at www.crimestopperswa.com.au or by phone on 1800 333 000.
Anyone with any CCTV, mobile phone or dash-cam vision of any suspicious vehicles, persons, or activity in the area of the fire, is asked to upload the vision direct investigators via the link: https://wapf.au.evidence.com/axon/community-request/public/vulcan
Rewards of up to $25,000 are available for information that leads to the identification and conviction of an arsonist.