Wales battles multiple wildfires as 951-hectare blaze visible from space

Members of public required emergency rescue assistance after entering affected areas; no current threat to life or property reported but smoke poses health hazard to residents.

From orbit, Wales appears as a constellation of heat and smoke — four separate wildfires burning across the country's mountains and valleys, the largest having consumed nearly 951 hectares of the ancient Rhinogydd range since mid-July. What satellite imagery confirms from above, firefighters and residents are living through below: a landscape under stress, its air thickened with smoke that has drifted as far as Cardiff, its emergency services stretched across a nation that its own cabinet minister says has not seen wildfire of this scale before. The Welsh government has activated crisis arrang

Wales battles multiple wildfires as 951-hectare blaze visible from space

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