Cootamundra Rural Fire Service volunteers have been firefighting in steep country north of Tamworth.

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Updated November 26 2019 - 2:34pm, first published 2:30pm
RFS volunteers Corey Nicholson, Gil Kelly and Jake Cullen with the Wagga Cat 9 tanker they used. Tankers have been requisitioned from as far away as Mildura. Cootamundra's Cat 7 tanker is deployed near Kempsey.
RFS volunteers Corey Nicholson, Gil Kelly and Jake Cullen with the Wagga Cat 9 tanker they used. Tankers have been requisitioned from as far away as Mildura. Cootamundra's Cat 7 tanker is deployed near Kempsey.

After five days of firefighting in steep terrain in the Moonbi ranges north of Tamworth, three Cootamundra Rural Fire Service volunteers are glad to be back in the flat country.

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Tom Gosling

Journalist, Cootamundra Herald

I've had a long career in journalism and corporate communications, starting with country newspapers, radio and TV in northern NSW and including ABC News Sydney and the Melbourne Herald. I edited The University of Sydney News for 10 years, and was Media Officer for CSIRO in Canberra and BHP Steelworks in Port Kembla.

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