REPORTS - Wildfire's

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.

CB19Kevo

With the recent upsurge in wildfires i want to reactivate this thread *(If okay with mods).

Graces7

CB19Kevo wrote: »

With the recent upsurge in wildfires i want to reactivate this thread *(If okay with mods).

Given the time lapse would a new thread not be far better?

I just read all of this without noticing the date and heart in mouth time. Thankful now that that was a few years ago, in fact the year that was so shocking and yes, fires started by farmers. I was in Kerry surrounded by fires

Thank you

redsteveireland

Zombie Thread ? :)

Meteorite58

Mod Note : Locking this thread, can post reports below in a more up to date thread, Thanks.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056586427

Rougies

Wrong thread locked? Surely this is the old one and the locked one is the up do date one?

Meteorite58

Mod Note : Locking this thread, can post reports below in a more up to date thread, Thanks.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/show...p?t=2056586427