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BIZARRE: Man learns fate over hunter blazes during total fire ban - What They Never Told You

Firefighters respond to the blaze at Kearsley in October, 2023. Picture by Simone De Peak

A YOUNG man has been ordered to serve 50 hours of community service over two fires lit in dry Hunter bushland during a total fire ban last year.

Cessnock Local Court heard on Tuesday that Jack Drayton set a mattress alight at Pelaw Main only a few hours before he travelled in a car with his co-accused, who lit grassland at Kearsley in October last year.

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