Two Coonamble RFS units arrived almost immediately after they became aware of the fire around 4:35pm. The fire was in a scrap yard right next door to their station in the Buckley Drive Industrial Estate.
"We were actually leaving work, at the time when we noticed the fire," District Coordinator North West Zone for NSW RFS, Greg Cassidy said."We had a truck on scene within a couple minutes just getting the truck out of the station and driving down our drive way to get there."
They were later joined by two more crews . . .
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