{"id":560691,"date":"2026-07-21T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560691\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:03:11","slug":"tipperary-fire-crews-preparing-to-go-back-up-and-tackle-blaze-on-slievenamon-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560691\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipperary fire crews preparing to \u2018go back up and tackle\u2019 blaze on Slievenamon \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Firefighters are assessing how to tackle a wildfire that is still burning on Slievenamon in Tipperary after crews retreated from the mountain overnight due to safety concerns. Efforts by those crews on Monday kept the fire relatively contained, and overnight fog has helped tame it, leading a senior fire service official to say this morning there was no imminent threat to residents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The official said the cause of the wildfire may never be known. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Carol Kennedy, acting assistant fire chief, told RT\u00c9 radio\u2019s Morning Ireland that crews from Clonmel, Cahir and Carrick-on-Suir were still at the site, monitoring and assessing damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fire started as a wild gorse fire and, because vegetation \u201cis like kindling at the moment\u201d, it spread into an oak plantation, but fire breaks kept it relatively contained. Fire crews were taken off the mountain last night for their safety, she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAs you could understand, when it gets dark, the conditions up there underfoot can be quite dangerous,\u201c Kennedy said. \u201cAnd there was very little we could do at that time of the night. So they retreated to the end of the mountain. The priority then was to protect life and property.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The fire at Slievenamon mountain in Co Tipperary&#10;Photograph courtesy Cllr Michael Brennan\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Y7DXEQRVHZCYLJI2XLEAXEJ544.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>The fire at Slievenamon mountain in Co Tipperary<br \/>\nPhotograph courtesy Cllr Michael Brennan <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt is still burning and there is still quite a lot of work to do, but thankfully the fog came in around 4am, which really helped to subdue the fire. So at the moment what we\u2019re doing is assessing it from an aerial point of view and then coming up with a plan on how we\u2019re going to go back up the mountain and tackle it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kennedy said there was no threat to residents at present, but she encouraged people to keep windows and doors shut owing to the amount of smoke in the area. Anyone with respiratory issues should also exercise caution, she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cOn a fire like this, we may never know what caused it because of the extent of the fire and the damage afterwards. All I can say is the dry weather and the heatwave does affect the growth of the fire, so we just need to be very careful about when we are using nature and barbecues and rubbish and all that, that we take them behind with us. We may never know the actual cause of this fire.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kennedy welcomed the drop in temperature today, which, she said, would help fight the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are assessing how to tackle a wildfire that is still burning on Slievenamon in Tipperary after crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,9123,18335],"class_list":["post-560691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tipperary","tag-weather-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560691","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=560691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}