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has anyone heard of the fires raging at walshaw in lancashire and another near halifax in yorkshire , hope they get put out soon but with all this dry weather its looking bad

anyone that goes to the moors should watch what they do if they smoke , no lit fag ends !

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Anglezarke moor is gone, there will never be grouse shooting on what was once a great moor ever again. It gets burned often but usually only one side goes at a time giving the grouse somewhere to go. This time its all gone.

One of the big plantations is also well burned.

 

Thought I also saw Darwen on fire but not sure.

The fire brigade are useless. To be fair with the wind it would of been difficult but they say they are only there to protect houses, which are safe anyway! Its just a day out for them to play with their new gear.

 

The news says its not suspisious, bollcocks! its nob heads who have nicked their dads lighter as it always is. When one goes up just watch the moors next door go in the same few days as lighting fires catches on with nobs in the area next door.

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I was wondering if there was a moor fire or something as we could see the smoke from where we were fishing today and its miles away from there. It could have been the simonswood one we could see though

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Anglezarke moor is gone, there will never be grouse shooting on what was once a great moor ever again. It gets burned often but usually only one side goes at a time giving the grouse somewhere to go. This time its all gone.

One of the big plantations is also well burned.

 

Thought I also saw Darwen on fire but not sure.

The fire brigade are useless. To be fair with the wind it would of been difficult but they say they are only there to protect houses, which are safe anyway! Its just a day out for them to play with their new gear.

 

The news says its not suspisious, bollcocks! its nob heads who have nicked their dads lighter as it always is. When one goes up just watch the moors next door go in the same few days as lighting fires catches on with nobs in the area next door.

anglezarke gone ???? do you mean every last bit of heather burned ???? for fooks sake ! Bacup has a fire going above the town heading towards Todmorden and it looks like Old Betts is burning too but they dont hold grouse as i know of

and i bet your right about little fecking pyromaniacs with lighters

my mates MRS said she will get him to ring me when he comes in, but looking from the windmills in Burnley he will not be home tonight you can see the smoke from Kiethly/Halifax

bad news

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gnipper....we came to the end of the 57, switch island and it was thick with smoke...couldnt tell exactly where due to it being everywhere but it must have been close...

 

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Anglezarke moor is gone, there will never be grouse shooting on what was once a great moor ever again. It gets burned often but usually only one side goes at a time giving the grouse somewhere to go. This time its all gone.

One of the big plantations is also well burned.

 

Thought I also saw Darwen on fire but not sure.

The fire brigade are useless. To be fair with the wind it would of been difficult but they say they are only there to protect houses, which are safe anyway! Its just a day out for them to play with their new gear.

 

The news says its not suspisious, bollcocks! its nob heads who have nicked their dads lighter as it always is. When one goes up just watch the moors next door go in the same few days as lighting fires catches on with nobs in the area next door.

anglezarke gone ???? do you mean every last bit of heather burned ???? for fooks sake ! Bacup has a fire going above the town heading towards Todmorden and it looks like Old Betts is burning too but they dont hold grouse as i know of

and i bet your right about little fecking pyromaniacs with lighters

my mates MRS said she will get him to ring me when he comes in, but looking from the windmills in Burnley he will not be home tonight you can see the smoke from Kiethly/Halifax

bad news

 

Just been up there and cant see any areas of heather that have survived. Wheelton which is joined to anglezarke looks to also have gone. Looks like the worst in 15 years that iv seen. Cant see the keeper havin a job by the time its out.

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Anglezarke moor is gone, there will never be grouse shooting on what was once a great moor ever again. It gets burned often but usually only one side goes at a time giving the grouse somewhere to go. This time its all gone.

One of the big plantations is also well burned.

 

Thought I also saw Darwen on fire but not sure.

The fire brigade are useless. To be fair with the wind it would of been difficult but they say they are only there to protect houses, which are safe anyway! Its just a day out for them to play with their new gear.

 

The news says its not suspisious, bollcocks! its nob heads who have nicked their dads lighter as it always is. When one goes up just watch the moors next door go in the same few days as lighting fires catches on with nobs in the area next door.

anglezarke gone ???? do you mean every last bit of heather burned ???? for fooks sake ! Bacup has a fire going above the town heading towards Todmorden and it looks like Old Betts is burning too but they dont hold grouse as i know of

and i bet your right about little fecking pyromaniacs with lighters

my mates MRS said she will get him to ring me when he comes in, but looking from the windmills in Burnley he will not be home tonight you can see the smoke from Kiethly/Halifax

bad news

 

Just been up there and cant see any areas of heather that have survived. Wheelton which is joined to anglezarke looks to also have gone. Looks like the worst in 15 years that iv seen. Cant see the keeper havin a job by the time its out.

wheelton ,that guy spent 10s of thousands on redlegs and thats gone as well :thumbdown: i will send you my home number by PM and you can give me an up-date over the phone if you will please

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Anglezarke moor is gone, there will never be grouse shooting on what was once a great moor ever again. It gets burned often but usually only one side goes at a time giving the grouse somewhere to go. This time its all gone.

One of the big plantations is also well burned.

 

Thought I also saw Darwen on fire but not sure.

The fire brigade are useless. To be fair with the wind it would of been difficult but they say they are only there to protect houses, which are safe anyway! Its just a day out for them to play with their new gear.

 

The news says its not suspisious, bollcocks! its nob heads who have nicked their dads lighter as it always is. When one goes up just watch the moors next door go in the same few days as lighting fires catches on with nobs in the area next door.

anglezarke gone ???? do you mean every last bit of heather burned ???? for fooks sake ! Bacup has a fire going above the town heading towards Todmorden and it looks like Old Betts is burning too but they dont hold grouse as i know of

and i bet your right about little fecking pyromaniacs with lighters

my mates MRS said she will get him to ring me when he comes in, but looking from the windmills in Burnley he will not be home tonight you can see the smoke from Kiethly/Halifax

bad news

 

Just been up there and cant see any areas of heather that have survived. Wheelton which is joined to anglezarke looks to also have gone. Looks like the worst in 15 years that iv seen. Cant see the keeper havin a job by the time its out.

wheelton ,that guy spent 10s of thousands on redlegs and thats gone as well :thumbdown: i will send you my home number by PM and you can give me an up-date over the phone if you will please

Dont think we are talking about the same wheelton pal, wheelton moor just above chorley? Nobody has any redlegs up there. To be honest iv only seen wheelton from a disrtance so it might not be as bad but i really do expect that all to be gone as well.

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Talking to a mate who was up on healey nab which over looks the burning moors. Apparently he saw 3 different lots of people who were sat up there watching the fires who had lit camp fires and bbqs while watching square miles of moor burn. I give up!

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