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Water bombers deployed as grass fire encircles Karara

Firefighters have spent Friday afternoon defending the small town of Karara from bushfire. (QFD)
By Jeremy Cook

Water bombing aircraft have joined the fight to defend a small township west of Warwick from fires that forced roads […]

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