{"id":233,"date":"2007-09-19T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T09:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/wp\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-07-15T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:28:47","slug":"school-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/school-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"School Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I miss all the fun! While I was away in Perth last week, a bushfire swept through perilously close to our school – running around our entire school perimeter, and right up against a few buildings, including our sheds, English room and Manual Arts room.<\/p>\n

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And who said it was socially acceptable to become arsonists in the Kimberley because regular “small” bushfires are better than big ones? Tell that to the residents who live by the school who nearly lost houses, sheds and cars!<\/p>\n

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I miss all the fun! While I was away in Perth last week, a bushfire swept through perilously close to our school – running around our entire school perimeter, and right up against a few buildings, including our sheds, English room and Manual Arts room. And who said it was socially acceptable to become arsonists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-fitzroy-crossing","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-3L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3997,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/south-west-and-central-queensland-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":233,"position":0},"title":"South West and Central Queensland 2026","author":"terry","date":"July 2, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"15,16 June \u2013 St George \u2013 Overnight in Boomi, the number of trucks passing by increased ten fold. 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