'The Silly Season' Photo Gallery by Karen and Gerwyn at pbase.com

'The Silly Season'

When I was a professional fire-fighter we always called the very dry spring months 'The Silly Season' because of the number of mountain fires started by complete mindless idiots. Things have not changed and spring 2010 is turning out to be a record breaker for the number of calls recieved by the South Wales Fire Service.

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Fire and sun beams.	Fire above Darren-Las, Mountain Ash.	Sunlight and Smoke	Fire above Darren-Las, Mountain Ash
Getting Close	'In Attendance'	Mountain fire behind Cilhaul Terrace, Mountain Ash	Forest fire buring close to the main road through the valley
Helicopter used for fire fighting	Dropping water on a fire near Mountain Ash	Fire fighters on the steep mountain side	Water drop near a fire appliance
Forest fire near Mountain Ash	Twyn-Bryn-Bychan, well alight	Not an Icelandic volcano	Stone Walled
Water Bomber	Whitchurch (Cardiff) Chemical Unit attending an incident in Penrhiwceiber	Evening Sorte	Bombs Away
May 2nd, 2011	May 2nd 2011	May 2nd 2011	May 2nd 2011
May 3rd 2011	forestfire-1-002-1.jpg	Mountain Fire

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Michaval		28-Oct-2012 22:11
Great story. I hope that there were no victims. V

Robbie D70		11-May-2007 21:28
Hello , Thanks for showing the dangerous situation in your area. I do travel past mountain ash on my way to the waterfall walks.

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