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Stephanie Gardiner

BIZARRE: Worker sparked fire first day on the job - You Need To See This

A farm hand whose welding sparked a major bushfire said they shouldn't have done the work. (AAP)

Farm hand Mark Turner was on the first day of a new job when he used a welder and accidentally sparked a major Black Summer bushfire that went on to destroy 10 homes.

Mr Turner told the NSW bushfires coronial inquiry he knew it was risky to weld a metal fence post on a drought-ravaged farm at Palmers Oaky, central west NSW, on a hot December day in 2019.

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