REPORTS - Wildfire's

CB19Kevo

With the increasing heat and lack of rainfall so far this year there is the possibility of large numbers of gorse fires breaking out over the coming weeks.
Anyone who is aware of fires in there area might please post on this forum with if possible current weather conditions.
Thank you.
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Harps

Seems to have been quite a big fire north of Dingle today



Daily satellite images here

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/

byhookorbycrook

That's down near Dún an Óir, I'd say?

Fear_an_tarbh

Some small fires in Fanad, North Donegal this evening, two fire engines went up there about 8pm.

SeaFields

We have seen some very large fires in Kerry in the last week or so including one on saturday night over on the dingle peninsula, which we could see from cahersiveen area and it looked very, very big.

There was also local reports of the Gardai investigating the starting of a fire as it took all the local fire resources in a part of north kerry and there wasn't any available to attend a more pressing emergency.

There is one just west of me at the mo.

With the weather as it is, we'll see a good few in the next few days unfortunately

Duiske

There was a large fire on Brandon Hill outside Graignamanagh today. Started about 3.30pm and was still burning about an hour ago, though much smaller.

CB19Kevo

As far as i am aware there has been a number of large fires near killorglin in Kerry in the last number of days.
Anyone know when the last decent amount of rainfall was ? Seems like we have had no substantial precip in quite a while.

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.087989&lon=-9.829609&z=13.6&r=0&src=msl

hoody

Seemed to be a wildfire or two on the hills to the northwest of Galway today, plenty of smoke in that direction when I left work this evening

Su Campu

I flew over Dublin City and down the east coast this afternoon and there was a thick layer of haze and smoke visible up to the inversion (around 3000 ft). There was a large fire visible somewhere over the Dublin mountains, it looked somewhere near Kippure. With the direction of the wind SE-S there were most likely other fires further south generating the smoke.

Cionád

Su Campu wrote: »

I flew over Dublin City and down the east coast this afternoon and there was a thick layer of haze and smoke visible up to the inversion (around 3000 ft). There was a large fire visible somewhere over the Dublin mountains, it looked somewhere near Kippure. With the direction of the wind SE-S there were most likely other fires further south generating the smoke.

I saw this smoke while on the train near Newbridge. Seemed to be coming from the Kippure area alright.

Duiske

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

I could see some very high altitude smoke in Kilkenny city coming from the S.E. earlier today. Then this evening there was a very dark plume. Looked like it was from the Mt. Brandon area again but cant be sure.

Yes, another fire today which seemed much larger than yesterdays. The area on fire today was further up than shown in your pic, and from what I could make out through the smoke, actually reached the cross at the summit. The smoke blocked the sun for quite a while in Graignamanagh, and gave everything a brownish/orange glow.

CB19Kevo

There was a large number of fires in south kerry yesterday, Not suprising given temps of 22 and above.


28 Mar 2012
Area of Kerry identified as danger area for gorse and wild fires

A portion of mid Kerry is being identified as a danger area on a county basis for gorse and wild fires.
Kerry Fire Service says the number of call outs to the area between Killorglin and Mountain Stage is very high.
An interagency group looking at the problem of wildfires and gorse fires has decided to hold a meeting in order to raise awareness and help local communities.
The public meeting will take place in Glenbeigh Community Centre next Monday night at 8 o'clock.
Assistant Chief Fire Officer with Kerry County Council, Michael Flynn and Ciarán Nugent from the Department of Agriculture will both speak at the event.

< Radio Kerry.

Loobz

Big fire on Mount Brandon this evening. No clouds, all smoke.
This is what I can see from my garden.



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Birdnuts

Massive forest fire burning in South Armagh ATM according to the BBC just now - others in parts of Antrim

Harps

Looks like quite a bad one all right

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17541387

A few spotted on the satellite pic at 13.20pm, quite a lot of smoke from the one in NW Donegal

Duiske

Loobz wrote: »

Big fire on Mount Brandon this evening. No clouds, all smoke.
This is what I can see from my garden.

I suspect that all that smoke was the result of a large fire on White Mountain (southern end of the Blackstairs). Theres another fire in roughly the same area tonight, but relatively small compared to yesterdays.

meemeep

Just saw the news about the fire in Kilmacanogue. Thinking of the firefighters - battling to save houses (and lives) I guess.

weisses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdBaqfiynLE

Just for a little perspective

Duiske

There's a sizable fire burning at the moment on the southern end of Mt Leinster. Seems to be roughly 4/5km north of the Killanne/Kiltealy area.

CB19Kevo

Large Forest fire outside Killorglin, Co. Kerry
Strange that just a few days of dry weather can cause large fire outbreak...

CB19Kevo

With over a week of non substantial rain there has been a noticable increase in gorse fire's.
Current temps are low and wind speed is currently very low however some large incidents have already been reported.

http://www.southernstar.ie/Community/Beara/Huge-gorse-fire-lights-up-Beara-skyline-25022013.htm

downwiththatsor

CB19Kevo wrote: »

With over a week of non substantial rain there has been a noticable increase in gorse fire's.
Current temps are low and wind speed is currently very low however some large incidents have already been reported.

http://www.southernstar.ie/Community/Beara/Huge-gorse-fire-lights-up-Beara-skyline-25022013.htm

Its been a busy weekend for fires services in Kerry
http://www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-fire-service-says-killarney-national-park-was-threatened-by-gorse-fires/
http://www.radiokerry.ie/news/fire-crews-in-all-night-battle-against-blazing-gorse/

Some small fires visible on todays satellite image of the South West

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl1_143.A2013056114500-2013056115000.250m.jpg

dfbemt

Surely these fires are caused by farmers burning gorse?

SeaFields

Link

Just saw this on facebook. Spectacular shot of the hills above Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, burning.

ch750536

Burning within 500m of my house, not a big area yet though.

SeaFields

ch750536 wrote: »

Burning within 500m of my house, not a big area yet though.

Nice to see the burning deadline being honoured!

CB19Kevo

ch750536 wrote: »

Burning within 500m of my house, not a big area yet though.

Where was that ?

ch750536

Abbeyfeale. Had to remove location from sig for a little while

Duiske

Large fire on Mt. Leinster this evening. Would not be surprised if the smoke from this can be seen as far south as Waterford.

CB19Kevo

I believe there has been a number of large gorse / forestry fire's in Kerry today.
None visible from my location however i did spot a large plume off smoke earlier which had dissipated within 30 minute's.

Massive fire's in Clare at the moment though.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/spate-of-gorse-fires-started-deliberately-say-gardai-29175519.html

Temp's are still very low so it seems strange to me that there has been so many even taking into consideration the lack of rainfall.

CB19Kevo

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

^^^

Buddy of mine is out cycling in the area. Rang me wanting to check what was going on. Said it looked amazing. Described it as lava going down the mountain.

Where exactly ?

Duiske

Cam on phone is crap, but this is from a few minutes ago.

Joe Public

it's amazing how yellow/brown the grass is for the time of the year.

ednwireland

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2013/04/08/night-from-hell-exhausted-fire-crews-tackle-massive-gorse-blazes/

IT WAS another night from hell for Donegal’s hard-pressed fire personnel as crews worked into the early hours tackling gorse fires in several parts of the county.

Exhausted fire service members are still on standby following several incidents in Inishowen and west Donegal.

The worst of the fires was a mile-wide inferno between Crolly and Loughanure.

Flames also danced high into the night sky at another massive fire on Fahan Hill.

And yet another fire raged overnight near Muckish.

V_Moth

Quite a lot of smoke over the Dublin mountains this evening. Smaller fire visible yesterday evening.

Chris_5339762

Went hillwalking up near the Sally Gap today. Where I am in Dublin had a faint smell of burning this morning and there was a little bit of fire on the way up.



On the way back about six hours later it was another story. Getting a bit worried about those cars! Sorry for the crap dashcam footage, it only cost €12 from China...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMscNTH7DQY&feature=youtu.be

Couldn't take a photo as someone was pretty much tailgating me.

martinsvi

there is quite a lot of smoke in D24 area coming from Dublin mountains. Wind is blowing smoke with ash right towards us, it's getting very unpleasant

DOCARCH

Casement reporting 'smoke haze' at 1700.

Could see from here quite a bit of smoke coming from the Dublin Mountains earlier.

V_Moth

Gorse fire on Howth Head this morning. Pic on RTE News tweet feed:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPb9IWHCMAES9An.jpg:large

maquiladora

This hasn't updated in 2 days, but it's showing an "Extreme" fire risk forecast for a lot of locations over the weekend.

http://www.teagasc.ie/forestry/docs/met_eireann/fire_index_forecast.html

Chris_5339762

In Rathgar at the moment. Stinks of bonfire, presumably from Howth?

dopolahpec

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

In Rathgar at the moment. Stinks of bonfire, presumably from Howth?

Yep, in Ringsend the smell is everywhere

Larbre34

Clear view of the Howth fire from here in Dun Laoghaire. Its quite localised and at least there is almost no wind on the bay, the plume is rising vertically, hopefully they will get it under control soon

DOCARCH

There's a smoke haze and smell here now and a NNE to NE breeze.

tricky D

V_Moth wrote: »

Gorse fire on Howth Head this morning. Pic on RTE News tweet feed:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPb9IWHCMAES9An.jpg:large

That's a restart of the fire from yesterday. Fortunately, it didn't jump the gap between the Ben of Howth and Muck Rock. I'll pop up some video and photos in a while.

tricky D

V_Moth

Small fire up on Killiney Hill this evening, but thankfully it seems to have been brought under control very quickly.

dfbemt

Nothing like the Summer of 1995 yet for grass and gorse fires.

The busiest Summer we have ever had in Dublin, and around the country no doubt. Came in for your shift and never saw the station. Crazy time but the best of memories.

How the retained crews kept going is beyond me.

This time around there is plenty of radio activity for the whole country but it's not busy..... yet, but will be if the dry spell keeps up

CB19Kevo

West Cork is getting hit by many fire's today.
Around Schull seems to be worst off.

seven_eleven

dfbemt wrote: »

Came in for your shift and never saw the station.

Ah shur, sounds like the average shift for the ambulance service :pac:

But yeah, Waterford city/county has been seen several over the past few weeks too. Seems a lot of them are malicious.

redsteveireland

Any reports of fires around Galway today? There was an awful smell of burnt/burning grass this evening along the motorway between Oranmore and Athenry exits, it went away past that.