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Fireys watching Mary Valley blaze after late night battle

Multiple crews are still on scene following a night in which 16 firefighting units were needed to bring the blaze under...

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30th Nov. 2020 12:11 PM

Rural fireys are watching a blaze at Tuchkekoi which raged throughout the night before being brought under control just before 1am. Picture: Zizi Averill (file)

BREAKING: Water bombers join bushfire battle near Gympie

Firefighters are battling to control a blaze that broke out this afternoon

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13th Oct. 2020 4:10 PM

Water bombing aircraft have been called in to help fight a bushfire raging at Curra. Picture: Joshua Deathe.

Grassfire flares up in Mary Valley

Fireys are battling their second bushfire of the day following an earlier incident in the region’s south

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04th Oct. 2020 5:10 PM

Firefighters are headed to Melwondi after a grassfire flared up just after 4,30pm today. Photo Tessa Mapstone

Multiple crews battle large bushfire in Gympie’s west

13 crews involved in the fight to control the blaze, with more dispatched

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15th Sept. 2020 4:09 PM

Multiple firefighting crews are at the scene of a large bushfire burning near Kilkivan.. Photo: Rob Williams / The Queensland Times

Two people taken to hospital from Gympie fire

Mutliple fire crews are still battling the blaze at Fisherman’s Pocket which started about midday

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04th Sept. 2020 1:09 PM

Two people have been taken to hospital as Gympie fireys continue to battle a blaze at Fisherman’s Pocket. Photo Craig Warhurst / The Gympie Times

UPDATE: 16 fire crews contain Fisherman’s Pckt fire

Fireys have contained the bushfire burning west of Gympie

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04th Sept. 2020 12:09 PM

More than a dozen fire crews are now at the scene of the Fisherman’s Pocket fire. Photo: Rob Williams / The Queensland Times

‘Demoralising’: Perrett blasts $7m rural firey budget cut

MP says latest blow another in a long list of damage dealt to Gympie’s frontline firefighters

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01st Sept. 2020 10:09 AM

Gympie MP Tony Perrett has fired up over ‘demoralising and devastating’ cuts to Queensland rural fire services.

UPDATE: Vegetation fire northeast of Gympie under control

The blaze is one of two fires burning in the region this afternoon.

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06th Aug. 2020 3:08 PM

Fireys have been called to battle a 300m blaze burning at Ross Creek this afternoon. Pictures: Jack Tran / The Courier Mail

Why Gympie’s coastline is about to get smoky

Residents are being urged to take precautions today

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20th July 2020 12:07 AM

Cooloola Coast residents are being warned to watch for smoke with a hazard burn planned within the Cooloola recreational Area today. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

Gympie fire chief points to staggering effort of volunteers

Government’s compensation needs to be start of conversation, not the end, RFBAQ GM says.

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03rd Jan. 2020 12:01 AM

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