Winter grass fire spreads across 88 hectares at Baldry, ground too wet for Rural Fire Service vehicles

Tanya Marschke
Updated June 28 2022 - 11:29am, first published June 26 2022 - 12:30pm
PREVIOUS BURN: The Rural Fire Service has been hampered in its ability to hold more hazard reduction burns like this one in the Canobolas Zone due to damp conditions. FILE PHOTO
PREVIOUS BURN: The Rural Fire Service has been hampered in its ability to hold more hazard reduction burns like this one in the Canobolas Zone due to damp conditions. FILE PHOTO

Aircraft were called to extinguish a grass fire north-west of Orange on Saturday after ground crews were unable to access the site due to the risk of getting bogged.

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Tanya Marschke

Tanya Marschke

Journalist

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.

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