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The Heather Blazing

This morning, there was an interview on Galway Bay FM with a fireman from the Galway Fire Service. They spent a long day yesterday fighting a blaze on the boggy scrubland between Casla and Ballynahown - they didn't finish until around 9.30 last night. The fire had spread to the roadside, and had surrounded the ESB electrical substation supplying Carraroe. As it happened, I was driving past the same spot a couple of hours later so I stopped for a look. As I was standing there, smoke began to drift up from a furze bush, and within a few minutes, flames began crackling from the undergrowth. I rang the Fire Brigade, and the fire tender passed me in Spiddle. So hopefully, the fire is out by this stage. Either that or there'll be a lot of sandwiches for tea in Carraroe this evening.

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