NSW RFS volunteer charged with allegedly lighting 30 fires in state's south-west SunSunday 24 updated SunSunday 24 The Whitton man was discharged from the NSW Rural Fire Service after his arrest. ( Print text only Cancel A man from the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) has been arrested for allegedly deliberately lighting grassfires in NSW's south-west. Key points: Police suspect 30 fires have been deliberately lit in Whitton in the last three months It follows a horror Black Summer last year, where 33 people died NSW Police began an investigation into more than 30 suspicious fires that had been lit in Whitton, about 40 kilometres south of Griffith.