Rangers ban barbecues and open fires as dry weather and lockdown easing raise the risk.
Dry weather means there could be more fires like this one on Dartmoor in February say rangers
Dry weather and an increasing number of people on Dartmoor as lockdown eases have created an "extreme fire risk" say national park rangers.It follows a spate of fires on Dartmoor and in Cornwall, including one which "It's drier now and we could easily have another one," warned Rob Steemson, Dartmoor National Park emergency officer.Wadebridge Fire StationA three-mile wide fire that broke out on a moor near Bodmin, Cornwall, in February is being treated as arsonAlso in February, a blaze damaged a
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