September 23, 2019
Detectives investigating fires in the Nanango area have arrested and charged a Rural Fire Service volunteer.
Police will allege that about 10:30pm on September 21, two grass fires were deliberately lit on the signposted rail trail link between Nanango and Kingaroy, the southern side of Nanango-Brooklands Road.
Police allege one fire was about 30m x 30m wide, while the second was about 10m x 8m wide.
The two fires were about 150 metres apart.
A short time later police were called to a property on Wilson Drive in Nanango where a third fire had allegedly been deliberately lit in a skip bin.
The fire was extinguished, leaving the skip bin damaged.
Officers from QFES attended and extinguished all three fires, preventing further damage to property.
On September 22, police spoke to a rural fire volunteer.
The volunteer was arrested and charged with two counts of lighting an unauthorised fire and one count of wilful damage.
The 18-year-old Nanango man is due to appear in Nanango Magistrates Court on October 31.
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