PHOTO: Firefighting on Monday 17 March near Coonamble Public School.
Emergency services have extinguished a series of suspicious grass fires along the Castlereagh River since the weekend. At t least one blaze came within about ten metres of Coonamble Primary School.
NSW Fire and Rescue and Rural Fire Service were alerted to a scene at around 12:45pm on Monday 17 March, where the Times witnessed at least four trucks.
The fire covered an area of at least 20 square metres among the vegetation, according to local Fire and . . .
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