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Wildfire in Scotland near Corpach

Fire in Scotland. Corpach.
Fire in Scotland- Corpach, West Highlands. Photo from Sam on Twitter, used with permission.
Fire in Scotland. Corpach.
Fire in Scotland, in the Corpach West Highlands area. Photo from Sam on Twitter, used with permission.

A gentleman in Scotland posted on Twitter several reports and the photo above about a wildfire in the Corpach, West Highlands area.

Below is what was tweeted between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. MT today, by Sam  who granted us permission to use the photo, but asked that his Twitter handle not be disclosed:

  • S**t an actual brick. Yet another wildfire here :-/ #scary
  • It took less than an hour to come over the hill and now massive rings of flames are visible. Getting far too close to houses now #wildfire
  • Here it is tinder-dry. We’ve had about 5 massive wildfires in the last week.
  • Update on the #wildfire. Can finally see the fire brigade going up the forestry tracks
  • @RedMist78 @tebone01 Haha! Don’t worry, we have a big loch that does the trick for this one. Buggered if it happens to the hill behind us.
  • The helicopters are on the way. It’s got into the forestry. Behind me is heather, bracken and trees.

UPDATE at 4:54 p.m. MT, April 1, 2013:

Another person on Twitter posted an impressive night photo of the fire at about 3:45 p.m. on Monday.

Here is a link to an interesting photo of firefighters working on the fire.

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