Lightning strike started Dunns Road fire during 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires, coronial hearing told

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Updated September 21 2021 - 7:17am, first published September 20 2021 - 3:30pm
A thermal image on day two of the Dunns Road fire, after it had spread nearly 80 kilometres. Picture: NSW Coroners office
A thermal image on day two of the Dunns Road fire, after it had spread nearly 80 kilometres. Picture: NSW Coroners office

It was the trigger point to one of the worst conflagrations of the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, and can be timed almost to the minute.

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Peter Brewer

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