Firefighters urge landowners to hold off burning as bushfire risk climbs

By Cheryl Goodenough and Brian Williams
Updated September 18 2017 - 12:06pm, first published September 13 2017 - 12:30pm
RAVAGING FIRE: The intense, fast-burning fire in a wetland reserve on Macleay Island last year. Photo: Jeanette March
RAVAGING FIRE: The intense, fast-burning fire in a wetland reserve on Macleay Island last year. Photo: Jeanette March

EMERGENCY services have appealed for landowners to hold off any burning during high bushfire risk conditions.