It is “too early” to assess the damage to a forest in Co Tipperary following a major wildfire burning on Slievenamon, a Coillte official has said.<\/p>\n
The fire spread yesterday to a forestry plantation on the mountain and fire and rescue services are focusing their efforts on that area to stop the blaze spreading further.<\/p>\n
Pat Neville, Communications Manager at Coillte, said that last night, the fire “progressed significantly through the forest … despite the best efforts of crews on the ground and supported by a helicopter”.<\/p>\n
Speaking on RT\u00c9’s Morning Ireland, he said that “efforts will again be under way this morning to contain the spread”.<\/p>\n
He said the “immediate focus” alongside Tipperary fire service and emergency responders is to contain the fire “as quickly and as safely as possible”.<\/p>\n
“Our crews, our staff and contractors remain deployed on site this morning,” Mr Neville said.<\/p>\n
He said it was “too early” to assess the damage to the forest and added that the focus is on “containing” the fire.<\/p>\n
Mr Neville said that with any active wildfire “the situation can change quickly” and crews on the ground “supported by a helicopter are going to be working very hard to bring it under control”.<\/p>\n
He said protection of public safety and property “remains the primary consideration for everyone involved in the response”.<\/p>\n
“Tipperary fire service are continuing to assess the risk to nearby properties and communities and they will deploy resources accordingly.<\/p>\n
“If there’s any immediate risk that requires public action, the relevant emergency authorities will communicate directly with the affected communities,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is “too early” to assess the damage to a forest in Co Tipperary following a major wildfire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-564003","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\/564003","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=564003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}