Rural Fire Service slams Tathra bushfire leak as 'disgusting and disgraceful’

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated March 21 2018 - 12:35pm, first published March 20 2018 - 5:02pm
The Rural Fire Service was on scene within 15 minutes of the first triple zero calls, but declined offers for help from NSW Fire and Rescue until the fire was baring down on Tathra's streets. Photo: AAP
The Rural Fire Service was on scene within 15 minutes of the first triple zero calls, but declined offers for help from NSW Fire and Rescue until the fire was baring down on Tathra's streets. Photo: AAP

The Rural Fire Service has called a leak from NSW Fire and Rescue "disgraceful and disgusting," after it was revealed it rejected offers for help from firefighters before Tathra was engulfed in a fire that burned 69 homes to the ground.

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