{"id":22960,"date":"2022-03-19T21:07:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=22960"},"modified":"2022-03-19T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:07:56","slug":"australia-5g-tower-set-alight-in-byron-bay-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/australia-5g-tower-set-alight-in-byron-bay-nsw\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia | 5G Tower Set Alight in Byron Bay NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Kylie+Stevens+For+Daily+Mail+Australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ext-gen88\">Published: 11:02 AEDT, 18 March 2022 | Updated: 12:35 AEDT, 18 March 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Telstra tower in Australia&#8217;s anti-vaxxer capital is suddenly BURNED down by vandals in the middle of the night &#8211; leaving flooded town where 5G conspiracy theories have run rampant cut off from communications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"ext-gen86\"><li><strong>Blaze at Telstra communication tower in Mullumbimby has cut communications<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Authorities say early morning blaze was deliberately lit, tower now a crime scene<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>It has sparked widespread community outrage and described as deplorable act<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Tower damaged second time this month in the wake of floods in northern NSW<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Do you know more? Email kylie.stevens@mailonline.com\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The hunt is on to find the alleged arsonists who set a Telstra communications tower alight in Australia&#8217;s anti-vaxxer capital, sparking widespread community anger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters have shared extraordinary footage of the top of a tower burning in Mullumbimby in far northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/new-south-wales\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSW<\/a> after emergency services were called to the scene early Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway with the site declared as a crime scene as community leaders and residents vent their anger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say the blaze was deliberately lit, which has cut mobile phone coverage in the town for the second time within weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The close-knit community is still cleaning up and getting back on its feet after widespread flooding devastated the region and caused damage to the tower earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be several days before coverage is restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10625641\/Telstra-tower-Australias-anti-vaxxer-capital-Mullumbimby-fire-days-floods-hit-NSW-town.html#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/5g2.jpg?resize=840%2C468&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20896\" width=\"840\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/5g2.jpg?w=626&amp;ssl=1 626w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/5g2.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/5G1-628x1024.jpg?resize=838%2C1366&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22450\" width=\"838\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/5G1.jpg?resize=628%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 628w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/5G1.jpg?resize=184%2C300&amp;ssl=1 184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/5G1.jpg?resize=768%2C1252&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/5G1.jpg?resize=942%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 942w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/5G1.jpg?resize=1256%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1256w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/5G1.jpg?w=1312&amp;ssl=1 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:02 AEDT, 18 March 2022 | Updated: 12:35 AEDT, 18 March 2022 Telstra tower in Australia&#8217;s anti-vaxxer capital is suddenly BURNED down by vandals in the middle of the night &#8211; leaving flooded town where 5G conspiracy theories have run rampant cut off from communications Blaze at&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/australia-5g-tower-set-alight-in-byron-bay-nsw\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia | 5G Tower Set Alight in Byron Bay NSW<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[535],"tags":[4346,6250,6246,6247,5430,6249,3559,6248],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/australia-5g-2.jpg?fit=640%2C322&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22962,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22960\/revisions\/22962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}