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Stephanie Gardiner

Blaze unintended result of backburning

An officer who sought an investigation near Bells Line of Road found later the location had changed. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A NSW Rural Fire Service report into a Blue Mountains bushfire that destroyed several homes does not mention the blaze was accidentally sparked by backburning, an inquiry has been told.

The long-running Black Summer bushfires inquiry was told an investigation report described the December 2019 Grose Valley fire, at Mount Wilson, as a "continuation" of the enormous Gospers Mountain fire.

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