Caution urged after record year for wildfires

A CHIEF fire officer yesterday appealed for people to exercise caution in wild land after a record year of fires.

Fri, 29 Apr, 2011 - 01:00

Kerrie Kennedy

“The fire service attended hundreds of separate forest, bog and gorse fires during 2010,” Clare’s chief fire officer Adrian Kelly noted yesterday.

He urged the public, in particularly landowners, to familiarise themselves with the latest Department of Agriculture advice on fires in forests and scrub land.

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