Kurri Kurri fire: arson squad involved in hunt for firebug responsible for massive blaze

By Dan Proudman, Brodie Owen and Krystal Sellars
Updated January 19 2017 - 7:37am, first published 7:32am
WORRY: Families can do nothing but look on as huge plumes of smoke rise from the deliberately-lit fire to fill the sky. Picture: Simone De Peak
WORRY: Families can do nothing but look on as huge plumes of smoke rise from the deliberately-lit fire to fill the sky. Picture: Simone De Peak

THE arson squad has joined the hunt for the firebugs who put the lives of many Coalfields residents at risk on Wednesday after lighting the two bushfires which threatened to engulf parts of Kurri Kurri and Heddon Greta.

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