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Awful fire on Saddleworth Moor
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Jun 2018 00:33 |
People have been forced to leave their homes. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 27 Jun 2018 02:38 |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 27 Jun 2018 03:10 |
WOW! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Jun 2018 07:55 |
It's awful. Fortunately no human victims, but all that wildlife.... :-( |
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Allan | Report | 27 Jun 2018 11:39 |
So sad! I walked over those moors as a teenager when I was a member of the YMCA, training for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 27 Jun 2018 17:59 |
Good grief, Allan |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 27 Jun 2018 18:08 |
Where the surface fire has been put out, the peat is still burning underground. What is really needed is a jolly good spell of torrential rain to dampen things down. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Jun 2018 18:19 |
The army has been brought in, now. :-( |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 27 Jun 2018 19:53 |
But not the famous grouse shooters |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 27 Jun 2018 20:03 |
The peat fire could smoulder away for months. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Jun 2018 20:38 |
It could, Sylvia. They may have to get diggers in when the top fire's out. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 28 Jun 2018 01:20 |
when we have forest fires here, the fire often disappears underground, will lie there over the winter but then flare up again in the spring ............. the same thing could happen on the moors |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 28 Jun 2018 07:14 |
The RAF are now doing the job we see them all too often doing here, helicopters dropping water from slings. :-( |
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Mersey | Report | 28 Jun 2018 14:03 |
Thinking of all those around the area and those helping out <3 <3 |
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'Emma' | Report | 28 Jun 2018 16:46 |
My sentiments also Mersey <3 <3 |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 28 Jun 2018 17:30 |
No water tankers?? |
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JoyLouise | Report | 28 Jun 2018 19:21 |
They are using helicopters Sylvia, scooping up water from reservoirs to drop on land in the same way that they scoop water from the sea to drop on Zakynthos fires. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 28 Jun 2018 21:09 |
Joy .............. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 28 Jun 2018 21:12 |
The plant life might not regenerate quickly ................. |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 28 Jun 2018 21:56 |
UK doesn't have those Sylvia because a fire like this is a very rare occurrence. |
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