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Fears policy shift ups risk for farmers using own gear to fight fires

Fears policy shift ups risk for farmers using own gear to fight fires

More than half of Queensland's volunteer rural fire brigades use privately owned vehicles to fight bushfires, with insurance changes leaving them to question their coverage.

For 20 years Frank Clayton has used his own vehicle to fight bushfires near his sugarcane farm in north Queensland. "If you can get to the fire in first 20 minutes or half hour, then you have a chanโ€ฆ [+6603 chars]

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