Joshua Lambkin and Craig Lambkin deny lighting four bushfires at Kurri Kurri, Chinaman's Hollow and Loxord

By Sam Rigney
Updated April 9 2018 - 2:34pm, first published 5:00am
ACCUSED: Residents keep a watch on a blaze in "extreme" weather conditions on January 18, 2017, and, inset, retained firefighter Joshua Lambkin, who has been charged, along with his brother, with lighting four fires.
ACCUSED: Residents keep a watch on a blaze in "extreme" weather conditions on January 18, 2017, and, inset, retained firefighter Joshua Lambkin, who has been charged, along with his brother, with lighting four fires.

TWO brothers accused of setting four bushfires that threatened properties and forced evacuations at Kurri Kurri on two of the hottest days of 2017 had an “agreement” that one brother would set the blazes and the other, a retained firefighter, would be paid to extinguish them, police allege. 

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