Is dart moor on fire

[Will 1594]

Gorse on fire ,
cannot think who the resident fire starter is

 

[Bury the Trash]

Nor can I unless that rascal rocketman has been letting off again

Bit windy for swaling I should think and if you mean Exmoor Dave, well then you've got the wrong moor

 

[Lofty1984]

@exmoor dave is the resident pyromaniac and cake fiend

 

[Sid]

Gorse on fire ,
cannot think who the resident fire starter is

This is Dartmoor, he is based on Exmoor , I am between the moors and haven't seen him go pass.....in either direction!

 

[primmiemoo]

It's blowing an absolute hoolie. He'd be heading to Cork in this, wouldn't he?

 

[Bury the Trash]

This is Dartmoor, he is based on Exmoor , I am between the moors and haven't seen him go pass.....in either direction!

Some where near Peter Tavy apparently.

 

[Bury the Trash]

and by the way its Dartmoor .

 

[spin cycle]

and by the way its Dartmoor .

can't be ...he's a yorkshiremen,,,,,they're never wrong

 

[Kidds]

@DartmoorDave

 

[exmoor dave]

Not me.... honest

But we did cut brakes yesterday in the hope of swaling today or tomorrow but the wind is too strong.

Later next week looks better..... just need to get the NT enthusiastic

 

[penntor]

Can see the glow in the sky from here, looks big. Somewhere out past White Tor I should think. There will be a lot more big fires like this if they stop us swaling and let the moor become over grown with no fire breaks.
At least it is a good time of year, vegetation may be dry but the ground will be wet under it, not like in June or July when the ground can be dry as well and the fire can get into the peat.
Just waiting for all the conservationists to start shouting what an environmental disaster. It will recover stronger than ever within 2 years.

 

[deleted user 837354]

@DartmoorDave

Don't tell me he has a cousin!!

 

[Sid]

Don't tell me he has a cousin!!

Some might say a "cousin" on the moors was a prospective bride to be....... @exmoor dave has widen the gene pool even further than the moors!

 

[deleted user 837354]

Some might say a "cousin" on the moors was a prospective bride to be....... @exmoor dave has widen the gene pool even further than the moors!

Well, there is much to be said for a lightly-used import as they say. Just so long as you can change the speedo over from km/h.

 

[exmoor dave]

Some might say a "cousin" on the moors was a prospective bride to be....... @exmoor dave has widen the gene pool even further than the moors!

Haha! Married into a military family.... who settled on exmoor.... unrelated gene pool

 

[exmoor dave]

Can see the glow in the sky from here, looks big. Somewhere out past White Tor I should think. There will be a lot more big fires like this if they stop us swaling and let the moor become over grown with no fire breaks.
At least it is a good time of year, vegetation may be dry but the ground will be wet under it, not like in June or July when the ground can be dry as well and the fire can get into the peat.
Just waiting for all the conservationists to start shouting what an environmental disaster. It will recover stronger than ever within 2 years.

The vegetation loading on the moors around here is huge in places,
Is it the same where these fires are?

Maybe @egbert knows something?

 

[Lofty1984]

Haha! Married into a military family.... who settled on exmoor.... unrelated gene pool

First for generations

 

[penntor]

Yes, it is getting quite dense.

Maybe @egbert knows something?

Possibly, if @egbert is who I think it is he is a few miles away from where this fire is and on a different common.

 

[Slowcow]

Just read this, turned the lights off and looked that way, looks like someone's put a town out there, Sky's orange .

 

[Bury the Trash]

Can just see a glow from here. A different one not Oke or Plymouth, but in between.

I wouldn't want to be too close down wind of it tonight.


Saying that Puts me in mind of the older generations talking about seeing Exeter and Plymouth burning in the distance during the War.