A 46-year-old woman has been fined $2,860 for starting fires on a rural property near Nimbin by discarding her cigarettes.
Rural Fire Service members found the woman on a rural property after being called to extinguish a blaze at Arkinstall Road at Tuntable Creek about 11am.
Police later interviewed the woman at the Nimbin police station.
They allege the woman was walking through the property to get to Nimbin and discarded cigarettes without extinguishing them properly.
She was issued with a $660 infringement notice for discard cigarette on any land and a $2200 infringement notice for cause fire to the property of another.
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