I don't think this one was, the timing would have required someone to be watching the place to know when we arrived back from our travels and when we drove off in the Prius to go to the doctors some 40kms away. We left the house at 10:30am and received the phone call at around 12:45pm, 2 1/4 hrs later, and fire was engulfing the motorhome and house by then. I'm guessing the smoke must have been so intense at that stage, it wasn't possible to see the garage ..... and the power box on the side near the motorhome that I suspect the fire started.
The direction and strength of the wind would not have carried a fire in the motorhome to the garage, but by the fire front path evident from the burnt trees, the wind direction would have carried the fire to the motorhome.
The palm tree near the power box is burnt to a stick, and they just don't burn because they are full of water in the trunk, and two spare wheels from the Prius and one from the Ford, all alloy mags, are burnt, one only has the legs of the star in the centre remaining, the tyre and rim are nothing but wire and ash.
Just poor timing I think, if the motorhome hadn't been there, unknown if the fire would have reached the house, but there was only walking room between the garage and the motorhome one side and the same to the timber veranda the other. With the strength of the wind coming across the river, the whole lot was gone within an hr or so, but still kept springing up again for hrs after and into the night. When I went over there to have a look after lunch the next day, there was still a timber upright in the back patio area that was smoking, when I went to take photos the next day, that pillar was gone completely ..... not that made much of a difference, everything in the fire's path was totally destroyed. Thankfully they saved the Kombi, one of the firemen must have been a Kombi lover, so he remained with a hose at that side of the house and kept the flames away from coming through that fibro wall and dropping the carport onto the Kombi ..... to make it worse, Margaret informed me the Kombi insurance had lapsed a few mths ago
T1 Terry