Bushfire advice: Grass fire flares up at Masonite Road, near Williamtown

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Simon McCarthy
Updated January 13 2018 - 3:15pm, first published 3:14pm

The fire has reached Barry Close and has continued to move along Cabbage Tree Road toward the Newcastle airport.

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Brodie Owen is a police reporter for the Newcastle Herald.

Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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