An electrical fault from a power pole caused a grass fire at Nashdale Lane at Nashdale on Sunday morning.
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The grass fire started between 11am and 11.30am and five units from the Canobolas Zone of the NSW Rural Fire Service responded.
RFS Canobolas Zone duty officer Lachlan Allan said the fire burnt about 0.8 hectares of land.
By 12.30pm he said the fire crews were in the mopping-up phase putting out small spot fires and cowpats.
Another fire that covered at more than 2000 hectare area at Curembenya and west of Bocobra, near Manildra last week also remained under control on Sunday.
The fire is being monitored by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
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Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
