Having spent two days earlier this week tackling a large peat fire, which was started by natural causes, crews were back at Lindow Peat Bog on Thursday, 14th June.
One fire engine each from Poynton, one from Macclesfield and one from Wilmslow attended, along with a special appliance from Bollington, at 6.25pm - just three hours after crews had left the scene having spent 48 hours dealing with a deep seated fire covering approximately 100 metres by 40 metres.
They tackled a fire involving four piles of peat, covering an area of around six square metres, which is believed to have been started deliberately.
Three main jets and a hose reel were used to bring the blaze at the peat farm under control. A thermal imaging camera was then used to check there were no hotspots that could reignite.
Firefighters were in attendance for around two hours and 20 minutes.
If you have any information about the fire then please contact Cheshire Police on 101, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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There are plenty of people in Wilmslow who have real scientific, historical, archeological and ecological expertise who would be more than happy to support a bid to restore the Moss, and many people who love the Moss as a place to walk, wonder and enjoy the plants, open space, ancient and more recent history and the surrounding trees. Many people have said that Lindow Man should be returned to the North West from the British Museum. What right have we to demand that if as citizens of the home of Lindow Man we are content to sit idly by and watch the place he lived, died and was discovered in turn into a dry, burned, soulless landscape with no biodiversity and of no value to anyone?
We know that the current situation (where the Moss is controlled by Croghan Peat) is complicated. But there must be conversations to be had and ways to demonstrate a real desire in Wilmslow to restore the Moss. Anyone who has been listening to Chris Packham and others recently knows that we are watching an extraordinary and terrifying reduction in numbers of mammals species, butterflies and insects, and we have lost 50% of biodiversity in the life times of many of us. Restoration of the Moss would be a huge contribution that we could make locally and would go some way to balance some of the loss of green space and biodiversity that we have seen locally due to road and house building.
So please, Councillors. Tell us why the planning application submitted in 2016 has not yet been heard? Tell us how you are planning to work with CEC and local groups to come up with a proposal to restore the Moss? There are plenty of people who would really like to help you, and you only have to ask! But unless you talk to your community we can make no progress.
Clearly the jig is up for the current incumbents.
If these two have even a scintilla of public duty in their veins, rather than blind party-loyalty, they can explain their position on this tragic situation.
Goodbye, don’t even think of standing again.
This is a travesty, its an important part of the towns history,the immediate damage that The fire brigade and Police are faced with, will have longer lasting consequences.I just hope those responsible are identified and brought to account.