Lightning sparks Mallee grassfires as landscape dries out

Allan Murphy

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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