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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Roxy on March 18, 2010, 04:07:07 pm

Title: Early grass fire
Post by: Roxy on March 18, 2010, 04:07:07 pm
THe railway enbankment above our house  went on fire this morning.  All the dry vegetation  soon got alight, and the fire brigade had to come with beaters

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/dollylane/railwayfire003.jpg)

Title: Re: Early grass fire
Post by: Daisy on March 18, 2010, 04:53:00 pm
Oh that is early in the year, mind you we've had no rain for ages now in fact the last wet stuff we saw was the snow
Title: Re: Early grass fire
Post by: sandy on March 18, 2010, 06:22:45 pm
I suppose the train embankment is always dryer due to shallow soil etc, remind me not to live next to an embankment!
Title: Re: Early grass fire
Post by: doganjo on March 18, 2010, 07:00:35 pm
Not here it isn't - it's got chuckies on both sides of the track and in the middle.  Very little undergrowth at all.