Good-will gesture for firies sparks up home-baked brouhaha

By Jared Lynch
Updated January 25 2013 - 2:13pm, first published 1:42pm
Not wanted ... Scores of treats baked by volunteers for firefighters were turned away.
Not wanted ... Scores of treats baked by volunteers for firefighters were turned away.
Truckload ... A truck filled with food donations for the fire front.
Truckload ... A truck filled with food donations for the fire front.
Turned away ... The tent city at Heyfield, where busy firefighters have set up camp.
Turned away ... The tent city at Heyfield, where busy firefighters have set up camp.

When a group of Bairnsdale residents decided to cook up a storm for the hundreds of firefighters battling the Aberfeldy inferno, they didn't expect their toils to develop into a bureaucratic tempest.

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