Crews battle 20 fires across state

Source: The Courier-Mail

Brisbane : Australia | about 1 month ago

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Firefighting helicopters were called to water-bomb a large grass fire in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane. Five urban and four rural fire crews responded to the fire which burnt out a square kilometre of grassland...At Toorbul, north of Brisbane, around six hectares of forestry has been burnt...

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