Cape York Weekly FREE – #058 | Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Editor: Matt Nicholls 0477 450 558 | editor@capeyorkweekly.com.au
BIG CROWD AT BARRA COMP See all the action from the weekend and find out who won the boat – Pages 12 & 13
CAPE YORK BURNS AFTER ARSON ATTACK
Fire bug runs riot By MATT NICHOLLS
MORE than 100,000 acres of pastoral land in Cape York has been lit up by a fire bug on the Peninsula Developmental Road. Land owners and managers
have been working around the clock to extinguish the flames and prevent further spread of the fires, which were almost certainly deliberately lit on Friday morning. Wolverton Station and Piccaninny Plains were the properties
most impacted by the arson attack, with both Emma Jackson from Wolverton and Sally Gray from Piccaninny pleading with locals to report any suspicious behaviour or vehicles near the PDR on Friday. “This is not something new for
us but we are well and truly sick of it,” said Ms Gray, who looks after Piccaninny with her partner Graham Woods. “Someone has travelled up the PDR and lit fires as they have gone through.
“We are now at the point where we are working with the police and QFES to try and get to the bottom of who is responsible. “Previously a lot of deliberately lit fires have gone unreported.” Continued – Page 2
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