The hills are alive with the sound of..... FIRE!

[I-S]

Vince and I decided to go out for a walk this evening. We went out the front door and just as I turned to lock it, I noticed something odd.

"What the HELL is that?"

I got my camera, and this is the view down the street:

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We decided then to take the car to have a look and see what we could see, so we drove until we came to the first point that we could start to see something:

http://www.askisaac.com/images/fire/fire2.jpg

We walked up along the road and out of the village:

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And some of the fire crew surveying the scene:

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We went over to the other side of the valley to get a wider view of what was happening

http://www.askisaac.com/images/fire/fire10.jpg

And a couple of gratuitous car shots:

http://www.askisaac.com/images/fire/firecar1.jpg

http://www.askisaac.com/images/fire/firecar2.jpg

All pictures taken hand-held, available light only. Canon EOS 5D, ISO 1600, EF 24-105 F4L IS.

[elnevio]

Great pics! :thumbsup:

Any ideas what was going on? Apart from the obvious, of course!

[Kieran]

WOW!!! :shocked:

So, what was the cause? Any ideas yet? anything in the news?

[Ryan]

At least the hills are not alive with the sound of German artillery! :thumbsup:

[I-S]

Nothing yet, but these fires aren't totally unusual on the moors. One happened a year or two ago also, that one was arson.

[g6acb]

I've seen the hills in your 'hood' on fire a few times before - not at this time of year though.

Seen a fire jump the M62 at Saddleworth

I hope that 3 foot deep 'puddle' that threw me of me bike has dried up now!!!

[WildCards]

Time for marshmallows?

[miller]

do they not burn the Gorse back deliberatley? I know they do in Ireland.

[MPBVr4]

Great pics !!

We often get hill fires on the Quantocks near me, but not 'til later in the summer usually set off by tw@ts having picnic bar-b-ques. We did have a spate of fires being started on purpose by the "Burberry capped brigade":smash: often in the middle of the night usually the result of torching stolen cars.

[I-S]

Mike - there's no gorse. It's grassland.