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NIFRS area commander David Harbinson said the Bloody Bridge fire was "potentially going to impact on Slieve Donard"."The incident that we have ongoing here now [at Bloody Bridge] we have 34 personnel in attendance and we have four appliances," he added.
"We have currently 19 people deployed up on to the mountain and they are involved in firefighting operations."He said there was no water access and officers were physically beating out the fire."We estimate there is a mile fire front down into the valley and then we have to be concerned whether it travels up the other side, so that's constantly being monitored," he said.
He said drones had been deployed to monitor the area and this was being kept under review.Earlier, Danny Ard, of the NIFRS, told BBC Radio Ulster's
that since midnight on Thursday the service received 997 calls, 146 of which were gorse fire-related.
Mr Ard said a "significant number" of wildfires were deliberate.Some of Valerie’s photos were later featured on the cover of the band's hit single, Motorcycle Emptiness.
“They had a naivety and innocence but they were also super smart, and very literate – they had lots of intellectual references to books and art, and Richey was the same."He was just really lovely and really charming and cool, and really good fun to photograph.”
In a foreword at the beginning of the book, bandmate Nicky Wire said: “We thought these photos were lost but they are found."I’m so grateful to Valerie for those intense twenty months when she saw all the energy and ragged glory of Manic Street Preachers and more importantly, captured our little bit of history seen here in these vivid, beautiful photographs.