Lightning sparks Mallee grassfires as landscape dries out

FIREFIGHTERS have contained three fires in the Mallee that were started by lightning on Wednesday. Two fires were ignited near Hattah while a grassfire burned in the Wyperfeld National Park and came within 2km of Pines Plains Lodge, west of Patchewollock. One of the two fires in Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, about 13km north-east of Hattah […]

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