{"id":8156,"date":"2025-04-10T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/8156\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:24:18","slug":"psni-air-support-shares-image-of-devastation-after-wildfires-in-mourne-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/8156\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI Air Support shares image of \u2018devastation\u2019 after wildfires in Mourne Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

The police said it had assisted the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service in assessing fires in the Mournes.<\/p>\n

Sharing an image of widespread damage, the post added: \u201cBear in mind this isn\u2019t even all of the devastation the fires have caused.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Northern Ireland Fire Service (NIFRS) has confirmed that there are no ongoing wildfires across NI. <\/p>\n

It comes after an extremely busy week for the Fire Service which has tackled hundreds of fires across the country. <\/p>\n

Last night it was confirmed that NIFRS had scaled back operations in Co Tyrone and Co Antrim. <\/p>\n

A spokesperson said: \u201cWe are pleased to confirm there are no ongoing wildfire incidents across Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirefighters continued to respond to wildfire incidents late into the evening and attended other emergency calls across Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

“Our Regional Control Room received 188 calls yesterday, 29 of the 116 calls mobilised involved wildfires.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday at 4.50pm, firefighters were called to reports of approximately 30 acres of gorse on fire on Ecclesville Road, Fintona.<\/p>\n

“Six Fire Appliances were in attendance from Fintona, Dromore, Irvinestown, Pomeroy and Omagh Fire Stations.<\/p>\n

“The incident was dealt with by 9.29pm.\u201d <\/p>\n

They added: \u201cFirefighters were also called to another gorse fire in Glenravel Road, Cargan, Ballymena at 5.23pm.<\/p>\n

“Nine Fire Appliances and over 50 Firefighters were in attendance from Ballymena, Cushendall, Ballymoney, Kilea, Ballycastle and Coleraine Fire Stations.<\/p>\n

“The incident was dealt with by 10.09pm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, firefighters said they had scaled back operations at a separate fire in the White Bridge area of Ballygawley, Co Tyrone.<\/p>\n

The blazes came after a major incident was declared at the weekend when a large wildfire close to the Mournes in Co Down led to homes being evacuated.<\/p>\n

\"NIFRS<\/p>\n

NIFRS responding to a fire in the Bloody Bridge area of the Mournes<\/p>\n

That blaze is being treated as arson and a 25-year-old was arrested. <\/p>\n

A separate blaze in the Bloody Bridge area that raged across a two-mile front was described as dealt with on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

The cause remains under investigation.<\/p>\n

In Belfast, 35 firefighters worked to extinguish a fire on Black Mountain on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

They battled blazing 6ft high trees with hoses that spanned over half a mile across the mountainous terrain.<\/p>\n

Police, fire chiefs and Environment Minister Andrew Muir have said that many of the fires are being lit deliberately.<\/p>\n

\"Firefighters<\/p>\n

Firefighters battle a major gorse fire on the Black Mountain in Belfast on April 8th 2025 (Photo by Kevin Scott)<\/p>\n

100 Firefighters battle major gorse fire in Mourne mountains<\/p>\n

NIFRS has warned that a warning is still in place and urged the public to stay vigilant. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith the weather warning still in place and temperatures rising today, we are reminding the public to adhere to our fire safety advice,\u201d said a spokesperson.<\/p>\n

“Please stay vigilant to fire in the countryside. If you see a fire, call 999.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The police said it had assisted the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service in assessing fires in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,1144,1210,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-8156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-tyrone-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114314127833126286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}