Fire fighters save electricity sub-station as blaze sweeps through wind farm and forest

Fire fighters at the scene of the blaze in Co. Clare today. Pic: Patrick Flynn

Fire crews from two stations are this evening battling a major blaze which swept through a wind farm, forestry and bogland in Co. Clare.

The alarm was raised at around 11.45am today when the Munster Regional (Fire) Control Centre received a report of a fire in the vicinity of the wind farm at Tullabrack near Kilrush in west Clare.