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RFS repeatedly attended hazard reduction burn before it led to Yankees Gap bushfire, coronial inquest hears

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The Yankees Gap fire broke containment lines near Bemboka on the morning of August 15, 2018. It burned for nearly three months, scorching 20,000 hectares of the park and the neighbouring Wadbilliga National Park. Four homes were destroyed, and the damage bill was estimated at $9.3 million. A coronial inquiry is investigating how a hazard-reduction burn developed into a devastatingbushfire.

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Coronial inquiry investigates circumstances behind 2018 Yankees Gap bushfire in Bega Valley

The Yankees Gap bushfire destroyed four homes and covered 20,000 hectares in southern NSW in 2018, with an inquiry this week hearing RFS crews attended a hazard reduction burn and left before it broke containment lines and spread on August 15.

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