"wildfire risk" extremely high..

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Yorkshire Andy
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GeeGee wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:57 pm
But massive reminder that the hoses in the garden need replacing
Next job ..specially when it comes to winter ...and this lot next door are great candidates for setting everything on fire even though I am on a water meter I may have to use the hoses ....
I can deal with my stuff ..cant educate the rest 🙄

I saw this in our local hardware store

https://www.wigleydiy.co.uk/hzk-reel-mi ... 0oQAvD_BwE

Looks ideal for under the kitchen sink / by a tap with the relevant fittings for said tap for a house fire small compact etc
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Well done little cherubs set fire to the grass at the play park not a million miles from home...

Operation blast a load of water into the wasteland out back is in operation now it's dark :lol: hour of the hose blasting water before this heatwave really sets in won't hurt .... Late on so plants have several hours to take up the water before the sun comes out tomorrow

Few stories around this but damp land will not burn or burn much slower.. apparently the fire service damped down buildings after owner evacuated leaving the sprinklers on ..

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Well what an interesting day in the media.

This shows the ferocity of the fires

You won't get near them once they get going

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hu ... le-7354459


Which is why the humble garden sprinkler comes in very handy....


Something like this
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Ltd-2 ... th=1&psc=1


Can be placed as a last ditch effort to halt the advance of the fire line or used for pre soaking areas
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Love how prepper is never static - always new threats coming that we need to gear up for. I bet the wise ones all invest in this stuff now.
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Sat here trying not to cry at the Look East interview with an old boy whose entire house has gone up from a spread wildfire. Poor old bugger lost his wife a few years back and now he's lost everything else. This is him in the local paper: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/keith-gant ... th-9157604

I was driving through one of the villages that's been majorly affected yesterday, an hour before the fire started. The fire *spread across the A road* to hit the village. It just boggles me.
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Le Mouse wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 5:44 pm Sat here trying not to cry at the Look East interview with an old boy whose entire house has gone up from a spread wildfire. Poor old bugger lost his wife a few years back and now he's lost everything else. This is him in the local paper: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/keith-gant ... th-9157604

I was driving through one of the villages that's been majorly affected yesterday, an hour before the fire started. The fire *spread across the A road* to hit the village. It just boggles me.

It's frightening some of the pictures are shocking not just a house fire there is nothing left it's even taken the plaster and render off the walls
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:10 pm
Le Mouse wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 5:44 pm Sat here trying not to cry at the Look East interview with an old boy whose entire house has gone up from a spread wildfire. Poor old bugger lost his wife a few years back and now he's lost everything else. This is him in the local paper: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/keith-gant ... th-9157604

I was driving through one of the villages that's been majorly affected yesterday, an hour before the fire started. The fire *spread across the A road* to hit the village. It just boggles me.

It's frightening some of the pictures are shocking not just a house fire there is nothing left it's even taken the plaster and render off the walls
Not just me that saw that then? It’s frightening.
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Utterly devastating, and if you know the place it must be even worse.
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Tuesday was the busiest day for London Fire Brigade since the Second World War.