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Smoke from the fire on the Comeragh Mountains could be seen as far away as Tramore. <\/p>\nFire crews are again in attendance this morning (Monday, July 27), at a gorse fire in the Mahon Falls area of the Comeragh Mountains.<\/p>\n
The fire was reported at approximately 3pm on Sunday, July 26, and was attended by crews from Kilmacthomas, Portlaw and Dungarvan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Waterford City & County Council told Waterford News & Star that while a large area has been burned, firefighters have prevented the blaze from spreading into nearby forestry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“No buildings are currently at risk and no injuries have been reported,” said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Access roads in the vicinity are narrow, and members of the public are asked to avoid the area to ensure that ongoing fire service operations are not obstructed.<\/p>\n
An Orange Fire Danger Notice remains in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The public is urged to exercise particular caution in all outdoor amenity areas and to avoid any activity that could result in a fire being started,” said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n
“Campfires, fire pits and barbecues should not be lit in these areas, and particular care should be taken when disposing of cigarettes or other smoking or combustible materials,” he added.<\/p>\n
Smoke from the fire on the Comeragh Mountains could be seen as far away as Tramore. <\/p>\n
The wildfire on the Comeragh Mountains created an almost apocalyptic scene overnight from the city over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The fire was one of a number of that occurred over the last fortnight throughout a number of different counties.<\/p>\n
The weekend also saw the fire service called into action to attend a wildfire in Tramore and its surrounding area – in the vicinity of the Metal Man.<\/p>\n
It’s understood that fire broke out in a field close to the famous landmark but the cause is unclear.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the fire service in Co Tipperary tackled a very serious wildfire in Slievenamon from which smoke was felt across County Waterford.<\/p>\n
That fire was first reported on July 20.<\/p>\n
If a member of the public sees a fire they should report it immediately by calling 999 or 112. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews are again in attendance this morning (Monday, July 27), at a gorse fire in the Mahon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-571430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571430","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=571430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}