{"id":557064,"date":"2026-07-19T06:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557064\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T06:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:21:20","slug":"firefighters-battle-large-blazes-in-the-dublin-and-wicklow-mountains-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557064\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle large blazes in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Another large gorse fire has broken out in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\">Dublin<\/a> Mountains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The area around Ticknock, south Co Dublin, was on Friday evening enveloped in thick smoke with small fires continuing to ignite. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fire-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fire-service\/\">Crews<\/a> from Greystones, Blessington and Bray Fire Stations were fighting the fire west of Glencree, supported by crews from Dublin Fire Brigade and staff from the National Parks and Coillte. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two helicopters attempted to douse the fires, which were spreading, and a large pall of black smoke hung over the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Separately, a gorse fire broke out on Glassamucky Mountain to the west of Ticknock. Military Road is currently closed to all traffic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Smoke is seen rising from a large forest fire near Ticknock in the Dublin Mountains\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LD3635TVZFFJZITDBRYDCT6EEU.JPG\"   width=\"800\" height=\"527\"\/>Smoke is seen rising from a large forest fire near Ticknock in the Dublin Mountains <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A helicopter was on the scene on Friday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Coillte staff and contractors assisted the fire service, and a second fire crew from Bray attended the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">That fire was brought under control before it could cause more extensive damage, and no injuries were reported. The cause of the blaze has not been established. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There have been several fires in recent days in the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"A helicopter drops water on fires that have broken out in the Dublin Mountains\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/QDL5CQ4XQZBP7B6X5GOCJHXQ64.JPG\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>A helicopter drops water on fires that have broken out in the Dublin Mountains <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last Monday, crews from Greystones and Bray spent 10 hours fighting a large fire on Coillte property in the townland of Deerpark in Powerscourt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Coillte staff supported the operation with a water tanker and machinery to help contain the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Officials have repeatedly warned that low humidity levels and easterly winds can significantly increase the risk of wildfires spreading rapidly once ignited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another large gorse fire has broken out in the Dublin Mountains. The area around Ticknock, south Co Dublin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,81611,61,60,43,7469],"class_list":["post-557064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-fire-service","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-wicklow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557064","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=557064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}