A SECOND wave of NSW Rural Fire Service Canobolas Zone volunteers has flown to Queensland to fight the bushfires which have ravaged the state.
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Ten Canobolas Zone volunteers are part of the latest 33-member strike team, known as Region West 19-04.
They flew out of Dubbo Regional Airport and arrived in Queensland on Monday as replacements for the Region West 19-03 team who, after three days at the front, are back in the Central West.
A further team is being prepared to depart Dubbo on Thursday in an ongoing effort to assist the fire-affected communities.
According to a Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman there are more than 100 fires burning across the state.
The blazes have claimed one life, with a 21-year-old man killed while clearing a firebreak on Friday when a tree fell and pinned him at Rolleston, about 300 kilometres south-west of Rockhampton.
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