Fire crews tackling blaze in Glens of Antrim

By Duncan Elder
Published 23rd Apr 2019, 11:20 BST
Updated 23rd Apr 2019, 11:38 BST
Wildfire rages across the Slievenorra Mountain near Cushendall on Monday night. Picture Steven McAuley/McAuley MultimediaWildfire rages across the Slievenorra Mountain near Cushendall on Monday night. Picture Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia
Wildfire rages across the Slievenorra Mountain near Cushendall on Monday night. Picture Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia
Fire crews have this morning returned to the site of a major gorse fire in the Glens of Antrim.

More than 30 firefighters spent more than five hours tacking a fire on open land at Glenaan Road in the hills above Cushendall yesterday.

A NIFRS spokesman said yesterday's blaze, which is thought to have been started deliberately, had a "one-mile fire front" at its widest point.

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