A timely reminder in the current dry conditions that it's
essential to take care to avoid staring fires in the outdoors after a
team of Welsh firefighters had to be air-lifted out after dealing
with a Snowdonian fire at the weekend.
According to the BBC, a 19-man team was airlifted out of one area
where they were tackling a fire started by a discarded cigarette to
another where they had to fight a deliberately started grass
fire.
The BBC says that the firemen were needed elsewhere and would have
taken too long to walk down the mountainside. More at www.news.bbc.co.uk
and www.firefightingnews.com
philip newing
