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RFS defends Gospers Mountain back-burn decision at Black Summer coronial inquest

The Gospers Mountain fire devastated large parts of NSW in 2019. (AAP: Dan Himbrechts)

A Rural Fire Service (RFS) commander has told an inquest he did not ignore concerns raised by an air attack supervisor about a back-burn during the Black Summer bushfires, which jumped containment lines and destroyed 100 homes west of Sydney.

New South Wales Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan has started examining the planning and execution of back-burning operations during the 2019-20 emergency as part of wider inquest into the deadly fires.

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