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Suspicious fire at primary school

09/07/2009

FIREFIGHTERS were called to a fire at Timbarra Primary School.
Berwick CFA captain Alan Boyd said around 15 firefighters from Berwick and Narre Warren were called to the Parkhill Drive school at 12.54am on Sunday 21 June and discovered a dumpmaster bin on fire. Captain Boyd said the rubbish bin fire was being treated as suspicious.

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