#grass fires

It’s so fucking smoky outside

Grass fires causing major delays on the M62 near Scammondem Dam

The fire service is currently dealing with two grass fires at the side of the M62 near Scammondem Dam.

Pumps from Slaithwaite and Huddersfield are in attendance.

Lane 1 of the M62 Eastbound is currently closed between J22 and J24.

Photo & Poem: A Smoky Memory

  A dusky pink summer dawn, stepping out the porch door, halt. Dread at the smell of unnatural heat. How close? Check the wind, look for a plume. Scan the paddocks, the horses will know. No reprieve from fires last winter, the relentless sun dries new grass to a pale

tan before it can mature to green, noxious weeds shrivel. Throwing morning hay, the sun rises from the dull horizon, casting an…

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All have emergency Alerts due to grass fires that have started due to the gale force wind conditions. 

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