The NIFRSofficial has begun scaling down its response to multiple wildfires
A major incident status has ended after three days of tackling gorse fires, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has said.
Among the other agencies responding to the gorse fires, the Irish Air Corps have been assisting, with aircraft dumping water on the blazes.Archie McKay, a group commander in the NIFRS, told BBC News NI: "I believe we are in the endgame now. At the moment what's happening there are small pockets of fires within areas that have already been burnt.
We've become used to a familiar sight in the sky here around Glenariff over the past two days - an Irish Defence Forces helicopter ferrying water from a nearby dam.
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