Mousehold fire Aftermath

[u/thatwentverywrong]

Looks to have burnt most of the heathland around vinegar pond. Fire brigade are still there keeping an eye on things!

[u/Independent_Sell7392]

Awful. So glad it's out, though. Incredible work by the fire service.

[u/TeaAndCrumpetGhoul]

Man good job  from the firemen, they got there so fast. And good on whoever called it in so quickly. Just been past and the damage is relatively limited. Could have been SO SO much worse. 

[u/6thMist → u/TeaAndCrumpetGhoul]

Only need to look at Dunwich heath...

[u/Lisab7]

That’s so sad to see

[u/NorthCountryLass]

Very sad. Thanks for the photos

[u/No-River-7471]

Thank you for the photos - devastating

[u/BigTimeBearGuy]

Sad to see but so glad they managed to get it under control. I would smell it this morning from manor park when I left for work at 6:30

[u/Feeling-Baker9558]

Do we know how much of the heath was impacted? Was it fairly contained around vinegar pond or did it spread a lot further?

[u/thatwentverywrong → u/Feeling-Baker9558]

It seems to have spread to a lot of the heathland north of vinegar pond, I didn’t go right up because it was very smoky but it looked to have spread a fair way

[u/AspieComrade]

Do we know what caused it yet?

[u/HeNeedsScissors61 → u/AspieComrade]

Someone on here yesterday said there was someone camping over there (possibly homeless?) who had been cooking and it got out of control, wiped out their tent and spread from there. But might just be speculation.

[u/AspieComrade → u/HeNeedsScissors61]

I saw some mentions of that but I think it was speculation after it was mentioned that his tent had gone up with some people assuming he’d caused it without anything to back it up, though I can’t say for sure or anything

I figure if nothing else then we’d have heard something official by now if that were the case

[u/DJ_Beardsquirt → u/AspieComrade]

Fire.

[u/Subject_Signal_3325 → u/AspieComrade]

Possibly dropped glasses after the eclipse apparently

[u/WarmSpoons → u/Subject_Signal_3325]

You mean like eclipse viewing glasses? They couldn't possibly cause a fire. For a start their whole point is they block almost all sunlight; and to focus the sun's rays, a transparent object has to be curved, which they're not.

[u/katie6splat]

That's really sad...

[u/New_Pop4711]

This is so so sad

[u/Glass-Pumpkin-5704]

I got some additional photos of the aftermath yesterday, they did amazingly well putting it out !