Around 85 firefighters are responding to several gorse fires in Co Fermanagh, a day after battling blazes across the Mourne Mountains.<\/p>\n
The Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) has responded to wildfires in Sandbank Road in Hilltown, Chimney Rock Mountain in Newcastle, and Cranny Road in Crossmaglen.<\/p>\n
The fire at Sandbank Road broke out on Sunday and was extinguished on Thursday; at the height of the incident, around 50 firefighters were involved in tackling the 1,500-hectare wildfire.<\/p>\n
The fire at Chimney Rock Mountain began on Tuesday and was extinguished on Thursday, with around 45 firefighters responding to the 600m fire front at its peak.<\/p>\n
The cause of both wildfires are under investigation.<\/p>\n
The wildfire on Cranny Road broke out on Wednesday afternoon and is believed to have been \u201cdeliberate ignition\u201d.<\/p>\n
The eight acres of fire was extinguished on Wednesday evening after 30 firefighters responded.<\/p>\n
Around 30 firefighters are at a 500m-wide wildfire on Polly\u2019s Brae Road in Dungiven, as well as the 85 firefighters in Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh.<\/p>\n
People are being advised to avoid both areas.<\/p>\n
A Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) spokesperson said: \u201cNIFRS Crews are currently attending several gorse fires including a large incident in Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh along with several smaller incidents across the province.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe initial call to the incident in Brookeborough was received at 12:10pm, Thursday 30th April 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently 85 Firefighters from stations in Enniskillen, Fintona, Clogher, Dungannon, Irvinestown, Newtownhamilton, Lurgan, Portadown, Banbridge, Lisnaskea, Cookstown, Pomeroy and Newtownstewart are attending. A Command Support Unit from Strabane Station is also in attendance.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrews are currently working hard to bring the incident under control.<\/p>\n
\u201cLocal residents are advised to keep windows and doors closed, and members of the public are asked to avoid the area to support firefighting operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cNIFRS request the public act responsibly if you are in the countryside this weekend. If you see a fire, call 999 immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to thank the public for their patience whilst we deal with this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 85 firefighters are responding to several gorse fires in Co Fermanagh, a day after battling blazes across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-425855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}