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Four charged over illegal campfire that left Fraser Island ablaze for two months
Four people have been charged with illegally lighting campfires that started the Fraser Island (K’Gari) bushfires.
The charges followed a joint investigation involving Queensland police and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS).
Police said QPWS rangers were alerted to an illegal campfire on October 14 within the Duling camp zone of Eastern Beach, north of Orange Creek.
Rangers found a campfire that was covered in sand but still hot.
Native vegetation nearby had caught alight and started a wildfire to the north-west of the camp site.
This wildfire subsequently took hold and over the following weeks burnt out about 87,000 hectares of the World…
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