Police are treating as suspicious two fires that broke out in Goulburn on Saturday night.
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One of them, off Ross Street, Bradfordville, burnt out a 70 metre-long by 30m wide strip of long grass beside the former Goulburn to Crookwell rail line.
NSW Fire and Rescue and three RFS units were called to the scene, behind the former Sirdar factory, at 9.20pm. NSW Fire and Rescue retained firefighter and incident controller, Craig Turnbull said the outbreak spread quickly in the slight wind.
Crews extinguished the blaze within 30 to 45 minutes. Police blocked off Ross Street at the Taralga Road intersection, allowing units to work and officers to investigate.
A resident told The Post that pencil pine trees at the same property were set on fire on Friday night, also around 9.30pm.
Sergeant Matt Owen said the fire was being treated as suspicious, as was another at 8.30pm Saturday on a Gorman Road property. NSW Fire and Rescue attended but Mr Turnbull said the property owner extinguished the outbreak before they arrived. It burnt a three-metre by two-metre area on the holding, some 2km from the Sydney Road intersection.
At the same time, NSW Fire and Rescue was called to the corner of Victoria and Albion Streets where a transformer had shorted. It cut power to the street lights and homes in the area for about 30 minutes.
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