NSW: Arson suspected for bushfire on the move

AAP General News (Australia)
02-07-2009
NSW: Arson suspected for bushfire on the move

SYDNEY, Feb 7 AAP - Arson is suspected as the cause of three bushfires in NSW Hunter
region that are consuming terrain at an alarming rate.

Fire investigators are on scene at Woolemi National Park in the Singleton area to determine
the cause of the fires.

More than 1,000ha of countryside have burned since Friday night as the fires joined
as one and are moving rapidly under hot and windy summer conditions.

Temperatures will climb above 40 degrees across NSW and in Sydney's west on Saturday
and Sunday until a southerly change arrives late on …