Gully Grass Fire - The Young Witness
Published Date: 17 Jan 2014
Summary
YOUNG police are speaking with two teens, after sighting them near a grass fire at Blackguard Gully Reserve on Wednesday night.
The fire burnt roughly an acre of grassland along Burrangong Creek, near which the 13 and 14-year-old boys were seen and loaded into a police vehicle.
Rural Fire Services spokesman David Nicholson said emergency services were called to the fire just after 10pm.
Fire and Rescue NSW personnel helped the RFS fight the flames, putting the fire down within an hour.
Police established a crime scene, which a fire investigations officer and police forensic services were investigating yesterday.
