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A long plume of white smoke, lit orange at its base, stretching across the night sky above the lights of Llansamlet
air pollution

LLANSAMLET: Council vows to ‘leave no lawful avenue unexplored’ on the waste fires, eviction included

'Literally poisoning us all': residents have been reporting the fires since spring last year and are now being urged to…

PC Taylor Rees and PC Guto Dafydd holding their bronze bravery medals in presentation boxes, with Chief Constable Ifan Charles in uniform
Arson

BRAVERY MEDALS: The Carmarthen rookie and his tutor who ran into a burning house to save a sleeping woman

PC Guto Dafydd was two months out of classroom training when he and his tutor PC Taylor Rees pulled a…

A cleared hillside strewn with felled tree trunks seen between standing birch trees on Kilvey Hill, conifers still standing on the ridge beyond
Cllr Andrew Williams

KILVEY HILL: Skyline will mean fewer wildfires once it’s built, council says

Lib Dem councillors asked whether thousands more visitors would mean more fires on a hill that has burned three times…

Firefighters silhouetted against a line of flames and smoke on Gwaun Cae Gurwen common at night, with embers glowing on the ground
Amman Valley

GWAUN CAE GURWEN: Neighbours beat back flames on the common before fire crews arrived

The fire service says the late-night grass fire near Crescent Road is believed to have been started deliberately, on common…

Two firefighters in red wildfire kit working in smoke on burning moorland, one with a shovel and one using a leaf blower against flames
Arson

SKEWEN: Teenagers, 15 and 17, arrested over deliberately-set Drummau Mountain fire

South Wales Police say two boys from Neath Abbey and Skewen are in custody, as the fire service sets out…

Line of fire and smoke along the ridge of Drummau Mountain at dusk, seen above rooftops
drought

SKEWEN: Flames light the sky over homes as wildfire burns through the night on Drummau Mountain

Crews from eight fire stations have been on the mountain since 6.25pm on Monday and the incident is still ongoing,…

Aerial view of a line of flames and smoke burning across the hillside above Mayhill, with Seaview school and Swansea Bay beyond
Arson

MAYHILL: Two hectares burn behind Seaview school in what the fire service says was a string of deliberate fires

Crews from Swansea Central and Morriston were on the hillside from 7.15pm on Sunday and were still reinspecting the ground…

Fire and smoke starting to spread along one end of Rheola House's slate roof, most of the building still intact
Arson

RHEOLA HOUSE: Four teenagers arrested after ‘deliberate’ fire gutted John Nash manor

South Wales Police say the fire that destroyed the Grade II* listed Rheola House on Tuesday was started deliberately. Four…

Aerial view of a large blackened burn scar covering a coastal headland above a beach, smoke drifting and fire engines on a track below
Carmarthenshire

PENDINE: Last crew leaves Morfa Bychan almost 60 hours after the cliff fire began

Sixteen fire stations fought the blaze above Pendine across two and a half days. The final crew left at 7.50…

Firefighters on an aerial platform spraying water onto the burning roof of Rheola House, with flames and smoke rising from the Regency manor
derelict building

GLYNNEATH: Fire guts 200-year-old manor designed by the architect of Buckingham Palace

Rheola House, the Grade II* Regency mansion between Glynneath and Resolven credited to John Nash, was left well alight on…

Aerial view of blackened, burnt moorland near Talley with plumes of white smoke rising and hills in the distance
drought

TALLEY: Farmers keep watch as mountain still smoulders after latest wildfire

Large areas of the mountain around Talley, Tipi Valley and Cwmdu are still smoking after fire spread across the hillside,…