This accord with the prevailing winter easterly or south-easterly winds. Little work was cooperative. Whilst women always appear to have worked in groups or to have had children with them, if no other adult, each person collected for their own household. Men, too, usually seem to have hunted alone or in pairs, but from time to time would gather together for major hunts or fire drives using a variety of techniques, traps and blinds. On the west of a major Fire Dreaming area is a major Rain Dreaming area.
Storms also bring lighting, which also is potential fire.
Commonsense allowance is made for wind strength and direction, and fuel abundance. Safety is a prime consideration at the time of burning, and I have not heard of a vehicle being lost to fire when Warlpiris were involved. Fire is not used for large-scale hunting drives nowadays, and in any case most of the relevant small game is now gone. Nevertheless the Warlpiri are still keen on burning and do so at most opportunities. My account above is not of a pristine past, but part of the current views of senior Warlpiri land-holders.