RFS member charged with lighting 30 fires in NSW - Sydney Morning Herald

A member of the Rural Fire Service is alleged to have deliberately lit more than 30 spot fires in NSW’s south-west between November last year and January.

A strike force was set up by detectives from Murrumbidgee Police District to investigate dozens of suspicious fires in Whitton, about 40 kilometres south of Griffith.

A bushfire burning south of Canberra last year.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

After extensive inquiries, a 30-year-old man was arrested at a home in Whitton at about 11am on Friday.

A search warrant was executed and investigators have seized items of interest for forensic examination.

The RFS volunteer has been charged with five counts of intentionally causing fire and being reckless as to its spread.

He has been refused bail and was remanded in custody to appear at Wagga Wagga Local Court on Wednesday.

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