A GRASS fire that was started by a harvester during operation on New Year’s Eve has burnt over 180 hectares from the corner of Cavendish-Glendinning Road and East West Road at Mooralla and crossing over Luhrs Road.

Coleraine and Cavendish acting police sergeant, Paul McLean, said “the call came in at exactly 12.58pm that a harvester had caught on fire which quickly started a grass fire that got out of control extending just over 3 kilometres in a southwest direction towards Cavendish,” he said.