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Crown point fire

Post by giveusaB » Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:23 pm

Burnley express tweeted:
Burnley fire crews tackling huge wildfire near Crown Point
Firefighters are currently tackling a raging wildfire near Crown Point on the outskirts of Burnley.

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by Bosscat » Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:30 pm

giveusaB wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:23 pm
Burnley express tweeted:
Burnley fire crews tackling huge wildfire near Crown Point
Firefighters are currently tackling a raging wildfire near Crown Point on the outskirts of Burnley.
Some scrote with a portable bbq perhaps 😒

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:33 pm

I’ve seen some pics and it looks bad.

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by NewClaret » Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:42 pm

I went for a run on the tops tonight and could see the smoke. I hate these moor fires, ruins so much countryside. Hope it’s not too bad & not man made.

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by Devils_Advocate » Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:56 pm

Probably some OAP's with nowt better to do 😒

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by bobinho » Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:59 pm

Nope. He’s already here....

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by RalphCoatesComb » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:04 pm

bobinho wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:59 pm
Nope. He’s already here....
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by elwaclaret » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:04 pm

Hopefully it has not got down to the peat. Between Rossendale and Darwen the peat was burning for years, possibly still is having started in the 1980’s

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by SPC&G » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:06 pm

It’s bad news for the ground nesting birds, of which there are many, up there
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Re: Crown point fire

Post by Darthlaw » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:09 pm

Does that now make it a hot dogging spot?
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Re: Crown point fire

Post by Fazz » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:13 pm

I was walking up by Widdop earlier in the the week and the ground is tinder dry it wont take much to set off a fire....I thing the fire brigade are going to be busy unfortunately

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by elwaclaret » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:15 pm

Darthlaw wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:09 pm
Does that now make it a hot dogging spot?
If your looking to meet Satan half way it might be a good place to start.
... as in it smoulders deep underground self oxigenating.

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:14 pm

Fazz wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:13 pm
I was walking up by Widdop earlier in the the week and the ground is tinder dry it wont take much to set off a fire....I thing the fire brigade are going to be busy unfortunately
That went off last year pretty badly.

Someone suggested that up crown point is planned and managed for driving out grouse. Unsure if that’s true.

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by Belial » Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:15 am

Drove over Deerplay about 8:30 tonight and you could see big plumes of smoke from that direction. If it was some little scrotes, lets hope they ended up getting caught in it

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by evensteadiereddie » Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:46 am

What and escape the birching that a few on here would seem to take great pleasure in giving them.....? :?

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by Burnley1989 » Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:49 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:46 am
What and escape the birching that a few on here would seem to take great pleasure in giving them.....? :?
Some would have them lynched for burning grass :lol:

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by what_no_pies » Fri Apr 23, 2021 8:05 am

'Little scrotes' is a fairly lazy assumption, especially when you consider the fact that more 'dignified' members of society do this sort of thing deliberately, knowingly damaging the ecosystem merely to fuel their bloodsports.

Great track by local band the Lounge Society puts a spotlight on the practice.


https://youtu.be/DCeIDhcCd2o

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Re: Crown point fire

Post by Silkyskills1 » Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:27 am

Belial wrote:
Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:15 am
Drove over Deerplay about 8:30 tonight and you could see big plumes of smoke from that direction. If it was some little scrotes, lets hope they ended up getting caught in it
How did you do that? :?:

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