South Wales Fire and Rescue service tackle numerous grass fires across Gwent
South Wales Fire and Rescue service tackle numerous grass fires across Gwent
09 July 2013
published by www.southwalesargus.co.uk
United Kingdom — FIRE crews across Gwent were busy this afternoon tackling 10 grass fires since midday.
On Monday night South Wales Fire and Rescue service received 62 calls to 999 in a 12 hour period from 6pm, including reports of 12 deliberate grass fires in the Newport area.
Today a crew from Malpas were called to a grass fire in the St Julians area of Newport shortly before 4pm, with Cefn Fforest crew mobilised to a refuse fire in the Hengoed area shortly after 5pm before being diverted to a refuse fire near Tir-y-berth two hours later, which turned out to be a false alarm.
Fire fighters from Maindee attended a skip fire in Clarence Place, Newport, just before 6pm.
