Around 85 firefighters are responding to several gorse fires in Co Fermanagh, a day after battling blazes across the Mourne Mountains.<\/p>\n
The Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) has responded to wildfires in Sandbank Road in Hilltown; Chimney Rock Mountain in Newcastle; and Cranny Road in Crossmaglen.<\/p>\n
The fire at Sandbank Road broke out on Sunday and was extinguished on Thursday; at the height of the incident, around 50 firefighters were involved in tackling the 1,500 hectares wildfire.<\/p>\n
The fire at Chimney Rock Mountain began on Tuesday and was extinguished on Thursday, with around 45 firefighters responding to the 600m fire front at its peak.<\/p>\n
The cause of both wildfires are under investigation.<\/p>\n
The wildfire on Cranny Road broke out on Wednesday afternoon and is believed to have been “deliberate ignition”.<\/p>\n
The eight acres of fire was extinguished on Wednesday evening after 30 firefighters responded.<\/p>\n
Around 30 firefighters are at a 500m-wide wildfire on Polly’s Brae Road in Dungiven, as well as the 85 firefighters in Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh.<\/p>\n
People are being advised to avoid both areas.<\/p>\n
A Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) spokesperson said: “NIFRS Crews are currently attending several gorse fires including a large incident in Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh along with several smaller incidents across the province.<\/p>\n
“Currently 85 Firefighters from stations in Enniskillen, Fintona, Clogher, Dungannon, Irvinestown, Newtownhamilton, Lurgan, Portadown, Banbridge, Lisnaskea, Cookstown, Pomeroy and Newtownstewart are attending. A Command Support Unit from Strabane Station is also in attendance.<\/p>\n
“Local residents are advised to keep windows and doors closed, and members of the public are asked to avoid the area to support firefighting operations,” NIFRS said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 85 firefighters are responding to several gorse fires in Co Fermanagh, a day after battling blazes across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-462284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116496390293524805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}