Police in Victoria have charged a man with lighting a bushfire in the eastern part of the state.
The Delburn complex of fires swept through the hills around Boolarra and Mirboo North, in Gippsland in January, a week before Black Saturday, 7 February.
Thirty houses were destroyed and electricity supplies to Melbourne from the Mirboo Valley were threatened.
Detectives from Taskforce Ignis charged Daniel Peter Kavanagh, 23, from Mirboo North on Friday with intentionally causing a bushfire, arson and conduct endangering life and property.
The ABC reports he will face the Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court at Morwell on Monday.
