Winds Fan Blaze in Britain’s Moors
More than 100 firefighters worked around the clock Thursday battling a blaze that swept across about 1,000 acres of the dry, heather-covered moors of a national park.
The fire threatens some of Britain’s most valuable grouse moors and one of the loveliest valleys in the North Yorkshire Dales, a region known to the world from James Herriot’s descriptions in “All Creatures Great and Small.”
Additional firefighters were called in late Thursday to reinforce those who had been trying to contain the blaze, which began Wednesday.
Firefighters and officials of Dales National Park urged people to stay out of the area. The blaze, which firefighters believe was ignited by a discarded burning cigarette, is being fanned by winds sweeping across northern England.
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