National Risk Register/National Resilience Update - Nothing new to us.

[Woody girl]

That used to be a winter job in the Forestry Commission - making fire beaters. They were sort of heavy weight besoms. Bloody lethal if You hadn’t been trained to use it.

We’d tell enthusiastic Boy Scouts to follow an airborne bracken ember. By the time they reached where it landed there would be a small fire in yet more bracken. One mighty overhead swipe with a beater and the fire has spread in at least four directions.

One year someone had the brilliant idea of making them from conveyor belting:
Looked great
Handled great
However when called into action they went limp. Couldn’t take the heat.

What would suitable material be for home made ones.?

 

[Pattree]

Just an ordinary birch besom works fine.
Birch pole with birch twigs. They catch fire sooner or later but they go out with just a knock.

You don’t smack the fire; you brush it and pat it. Brush the burning material back into the burned area.

A shovel can work if you sort of roll it over the burning material but it’s hard work.

However my information is nearly sixty years out of date.

 

[HorseGuy]

Don't know who's causing the fires. All have been caught early as everyone uses the path, but we don't realy know who what pr why these fires have started. Never before in the 26 yrs I've lived here. We assume it's someone discarding lit ciggies. But we don't know. It could e en be deliberate.

The conspiracy theorist in me can't help but wonder if some of these fires are being deliberately started to help create a narrative to push for more net zero measures?

Yeah I know that sounds crazy but it makes you wonder though. They do seem to be desperate to push the net zero agenda at every possible opportunity.

 

[Woody girl]

The conspiracy theorist in me can't help but wonder if some of these fires are being deliberately started to help create a narrative to push for more net zero measures?

Yeah I know that sounds crazy but it makes you wonder though. They do seem to be desperate to push the net zero agenda at every possible opportunity.

I'm very sure they are. It's happening everywhere...except where certain types of people used to live before they spread to Europe...now that is a conspiracy theory to work with.
Plus there is a pressing need to destroy farmland and build these new ai centres what for...I have no idea of course.

 

[Woody girl]

Just an ordinary birch besom works fine.
Birch pole with birch twigs. They catch fire sooner or later but they go out with just a knock.

You don’t smack the fire; you brush it and pat it. Brush the burning material back into the burned area.

A shovel can work if you sort of roll it over the burning material but it’s hard work.

However my information is nearly sixty years out of date.

If it works, it's not out of date.

 

[GeraldTheBonsai]

The conspiracy theorist in me can't help but wonder if some of these fires are being deliberately started to help create a narrative to push for more net zero measures?

Yeah I know that sounds crazy but it makes you wonder though. They do seem to be desperate to push the net zero agenda at every possible opportunity.

As the saying goes, never attributive to malevolence what can best be explained by incompetence. Poor rubbish collection, people tossing fag ends around, broken glass - just general lack of countryside maintenance (you should see some over the central reservations down here - tinder boxes).