Fire permits suspended in hot weather, as Rural Fire Service control eight blazes across Hastings

Letitia Fitzpatrick
September 5 2019 - 12:00pm
Firefighters at Lindfield Park Road in Port Macquarie last month. Photo courtesy of Sancrox/Thrumster Rural Fire Brigade.
Firefighters at Lindfield Park Road in Port Macquarie last month. Photo courtesy of Sancrox/Thrumster Rural Fire Brigade.

Firefighters say permits will continue to be suspended over the next few days as temperatures are set to soar and the dry, hot weather continues.

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Letitia Fitzpatrick

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Senior journalist, Wauchope Gazette

Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.